On 01/16/2014 04:49 AM, Michael Urman wrote:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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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:

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'%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~