Message 83669 - Python tracker
About Python3, bytes.center accepts unicode as second argument, which is an error for me: >>> b"x".center(5, b"\xe9") b'\xe9\xe9x\xe9\xe9' >>> b"x".center(5, "\xe9") b'\xe9\xe9x\xe9\xe9' The second example must fail with a TypeError. str.center has the right behaviour: >>> "x".center(5, "\xe9") 'ééxéé' >>> "x".center(5, b"\xe9") TypeError: The fill character cannot be converted to Unicode