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[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 28 12:06:40 CET 2014 
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:09:58 -0700
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 03/27/2014 03:10 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > R. David Murray wrote:
> >> I've done the 'landmark' thing as well, in the string context; that can be
> >> very useful when doing incremental test driven development.  (Granted, you
> >> could do that with __bytes__;
> >
> > Can't you do it more easily just by wrapping ascii()
> > around the argument? That seems sufficient for debugging
> > purposes to me.
> 
> The problem there is ascii() still returns unicode (okay, okay, str), so you still have to encode it.

ascii(my_object).encode()

Regards

Antoine.
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