On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:33:35 +0200 Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furus...@usit.uio.no> wrote: > > The offender is bytes.__str__: str(b'foo') == "b'foo'". > It's often not clear from looking at a piece of code whether > some data is treated as strings or bytes, particularly when > translating from old code. Which means one cannot see from > context if str(s) or "%s" % s will produce garbage.
This probably comes from overuse of str(s) and "%s". They can be useful to produce human-readable messages, but you shouldn't have to use them very often. > I really wish bytes.__str__ would at least by default fail. Actually, the implicit contract of __str__ is that it never fails, so that everything can be printed out (for debugging purposes, etc.). Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
