On 01/16/2014 04:49 AM, Michael Urman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Is this an intended exception to the overriding principle?
Hmm, thanks for spotting that. Yes, that would be a value error if anything
over 255 is used, both currently in Py2, and for bytes in Py3. As Carl
suggested, a little more explanation is needed in the PEP.
FYI, note that str/unicode already has another value-dependent
exception with %c. I find the message surprising, as I wasn't aware
Python had a 'char' type:
'%c' % 'a'
'a'
'%c' % 'abc'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: %c requires int or char
Python doesn't have a char type, it has str's of length 1... which are usually
referred to as char's. ;)
--
~Ethan~
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