Re: PATCH: provide %c and %u8c formatting in pickle printf()

[Henner Zeller]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 07:09, Henner Zeller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Not sure if this is the best way to implement this (I have not
> entirely grokked the whole jitter thing yet), but at least it could be
> a suggestion.
>
> Here is a little patch that adds %c (which is also understood as %u8c)
> formatting in printf().
>
> With that, the ascii printing in pk-dump.pk could be implemented.
>
> So commit message maybe
>   o Add %c formatting in printf()
>   o Add more detailed error messages in format string problems
>   o implement ascii printing for the dump command (pk-dump.pk)

After this, maybe it can be considered to switch on ascii printing by
default (easier to discover that way)
pk-dump.pk:30: defvar pk_dump_ascii = 1;

-h

>
> Cheers,
>   Henner