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Author	vstinner
Recipients	marco.sulla, vstinner
Date	2016-03-14.10:35:51
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1457951751.76.0.846872215369.issue26555@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I would that the format minilanguage will convert bytes to string properly. Sorry, nope, Python 3 doesn't guess the encoding of byte strings anymore. You have to decode manually. Example: "Hello {}".format(b"World".decode('ascii')) Or format to bytes: b"Hello {}".format(b"World") It's not a bug. It's a feature.

> I would that the format minilanguage will convert bytes to string properly.

Sorry, nope, Python 3 doesn't guess the encoding of byte strings anymore. You have to decode manually. Example:

"Hello {}".format(b"World".decode('ascii'))

Or format to bytes:

b"Hello {}".format(b"World")

It's not a bug. It's a feature.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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