STINNER Victor added the comment:
> b'%c' is still raising a TypeError. The error message is fine ("%c requires
> an integer in range(256) or a single byte") but it should be an OverflowError
> for backwards compatibility.
I don't understand why you care so much on the exact exception. It doesn't look
right to me to rely on the *exact* exception raised by "%c" % arg. It's an
obvious bug in the application.
Sometimes, you may want to be extra safe and catch exception while formating a
message. The logging module does this. But the logging doesn't care of the
exact exception, it uses a generic "except Except:" in StreamHandler.emit():
def emit(self, record):
try:
msg = self.format(record)
stream = self.stream
stream.write(msg)
stream.write(self.terminator)
self.flush()
except Exception:
self.handleError(record)
IMO b"%c" % int must raise ValueError, not OverflowError, if the value is not
in the range 0..255.
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