On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:14:45 -0500 "Eric V. Smith" <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > > >> Because embedding the ASCII equivalent of ints and floats in byte streams > >> is a common operation? > > > > Again, if you're representing "ASCII", you're representing text and > > should use a str object. > > Yes, but is there existing 2.x code that uses %s for int and float > (perhaps unwittingly), and do we want to "help" that code out? > Or do we > want to make porters first change to using %d or %f instead of %s?
I'm afraid you're misunderstanding me. The PEP doesn't allow for %d and %f on bytes objects. > I think what you're getting at is that in addition to not calling > __format__, we don't want to call __str__, either, for the same reason. Not only. We don't want to do anything that actually asks for a *textual* representation of something. %d and %f ask for a textual representation of a number, so they're right out. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
