* Nick Coghlan wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
The bad error message is a result of __format__ passing on unicode to strftime.
There are, of course, various ugly ways to work around this involving nested format calls.
I don't know if this fits your definition of "ugly workaround", but what if datetime.__format__ did something like:
def __format__(self, spec): encoding = None if isinstance(spec, unicode): encoding = 'utf-8' spec = spec.encode(encoding) result = strftime(spec, self) if encoding is not None: result = result.decode(encoding) return result
Note that hardcoding utf-8 is a bad guess here as strftime(3) emits locale strings, so decoding will easily fail.
I guess, a clean and complete solution (besides re-implementing the whole thing) would be to resolve each single format character with strftime, decode according to the locale and re-assemble the result string piece by piece. Doh!
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