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Author martin.panter
Recipients Arfrever, benjamin.peterson, docs@python, martin.panter, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner, zbysz
Date 2017-03-25.21:21:35
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A backwards-compatible way forward would be to preserve (and document) the “format” attribute as a byte string, and add a new attribute which is definitely a text string. Not sure of a good name; perhaps “Struct.text_format” or “format_str” is a start.
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2017-03-25 21:21:35martin.pantersetrecipients: + martin.panter, rhettinger, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, Arfrever, r.david.murray, zbysz, docs@python, serhiy.storchaka
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