Message 94972 - Python tracker

Message94972

Author	doerwalter
Recipients	doerwalter, eric.smith
Date	2009-11-06.14:52:30
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I'd say that a value >= 128 should generate a Unicode string (as the PEP explicitely states that the value is a Unicode code point and not a byte value). However str.format() doesn't seem to support mixing str and unicode anyway: >>> '{0}'.format(u'\u3042') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u3042' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) so str.format() might raise an OverflowError for values >= 128 (or >= 256?)

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I'd say that a value >= 128 should generate a Unicode string (as the PEP
explicitely states that the value is a Unicode code point and not a byte
value).

However str.format() doesn't seem to support mixing str and unicode anyway:

>>> '{0}'.format(u'\u3042')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u3042' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

so str.format() might raise an OverflowError for values >= 128 (or >= 256?)

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Date	User	Action	Args
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