STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:

My patch converts the format string to unicode using the default encoding. It's 
inconsistent with str%args: str%args converts str to unicode using the ASCII 
charset (if a least one argument is an unicode string), not the default 
encoding.

>>> "\xff%s" % u'\xe9'
...
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: ordinal 
not in range(128)

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