[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 460: add .format_map()

Thu Jan 9 22:02:06 CET 2014

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/8947cdc6b22e
changeset: 5341:8947cdc6b22e
user: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date: Thu Jan 09 22:02:01 2014 +0100
summary:
 PEP 460: add .format_map()
files:
 pep-0460.txt | 6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0460.txt b/pep-0460.txt
--- a/pep-0460.txt
+++ b/pep-0460.txt
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@
 similar in syntax to ``str.format()`` (accepting positional as well as
 keyword arguments).
 
+* ``bytes.format_map(...)`` and ``bytearray.format_map(...)`` for an
+ API similar to ``str.format_map(...)``, with the same formatting
+ syntax and semantics as ``bytes.format()`` and ``bytearray.format()``.
+
 
 Rationale
 =========
 
 In Python 2, ``str % args`` and ``str.format(args)`` allow the formatting
-and interpolation of bytes strings. This feature has commonly been used
+and interpolation of bytestrings. This feature has commonly been used
 for the assembling of protocol messages when protocols are known to use
 a fixed encoding.
 
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