Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 09:01:37 CET 2014

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> For the first iteration of bytes.format(), I think we should just
> support the exact types of int, float, and bytes. It will call the
> type's__format__ (with the object as "self") and encode the result to
> ASCII. For the stated use case of 2.x compatibility, I suspect this will
> cover > 90% of the uses in real code. If we find there are cases where
> real code needs additional types supported, we can consider adding
> __format_ascii__ (or whatever name we cook up).

+1

-eric

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