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[Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Jan 17 17:58:37 CET 2014 
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> >I would rephrase it to "switch to %-formatting for bytes usage for their
> >common code base".
>
> -1.  %-formatting is so neanderthal. :)
>

Very much so, which is why I'm willing to let it be bastardized in Python
3.5 for the sake of porting but not bytes.format(). =) I'm keeping format()
clean for my nieces and nephew to use; they can just turn their nose up at
%-formatting when they are old enough to program.
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