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Yeah, I was around for the sidelines of PEP-461, reintroducing % onto the bytes type, trying to get things done behind the scenes, and it was just a miserable e
by Jasper_ 7y ago
Yeah, I was around for the sidelines of PEP-461, reintroducing % onto the bytes type, trying to get things done behind the scenes, and it was just a miserable experience all around. I don't think anybody cared to understand our concerns about why we should bother making the bytes type useful. At times it seemed like they believed leaving in the concatenation on the bytes type was a mistake.
Read through the receipts here: https://bugs.python.org/issue3982 https://bugs.python.org/issue3982
- the_mitsuhiko 7y agoA lot of present day Python 3 programmers also have not been part of the very emotional conversations about getting some of these things back in the early days of Python 3.