[Python-Dev] PEP 461 updates

[Neil Schemenauer]

Greg <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> I don't think it matters whether the internal details of that
> debate make sense to the rest of us. The main thing is that
> a consensus seems to have been reached on bytes formatting
> being basically a good thing.

I've been mostly steering clear of the metaphysical and writing
code today. ;-)  An extremely rough patch has been uploaded:

    http://bugs.python.org/issue20284

I have a new one almost ready that introduces __ascii__ rather than
overloading __format__.  I like it better, will upload to issue
tracker soon.

Regards,

  Neil