New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: The main motivation of PEP 461 was to help ease migration from, and/or have a single code base with, Python 2. But bytes formatting don't support the %r code supported in Python 2. Instead it supports the %a code which is exactly equivalent to the %r code in Python 2 but doesn't supported in Python 2. So it is not so easy to migrate from or have a single code base with Python 2 it the code uses the %r opcode.
As far as bytes formatting supports the %s code (an alias to %b) purely for compatibility with Python 2, it would be good to support the %r as an alias to %a. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 236057 nosy: ethan.furman, gvanrossum, serhiy.storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Improve byte formatting compatibility between Py2 and Py3 type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23467> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
