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[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 12 22:16:23 CET 2014 
On 12/01/2014 21:06, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>> I could easily argue at this point that this is the type of bug that
>> having %-formatting operations on bytes would encourage - %s means
>> "format a string" (from years of C and Python (text) experience) so I
>> automatically supply a string argument when using %s in a bytes
>> formatting context.
>
> So don't call it %s -- call it something else
> such as %b.
>

Sorry but you can't use %b as that'll confuse people who're used to it 
meaning "Month as locale’s abbreviated name." :)

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Mark Lawrence
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