[New-bugs-announce] [issue7267] format method: c presentation type broken

[Walter Dörwald]

New submission from Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de>:

The c presentation type in the new format method from PEP 3101 seems to
be broken:

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 27 2009, 15:18:04) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
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>>> u'{0:c}'.format(256)
u'\x00'

The PEP states:

'c' - Character. Converts the integer to the corresponding Unicode
character before printing, so I would have expected this to return
u'\u0100' instead of u'\x00'.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 94935
nosy: doerwalter
severity: normal
status: open
title: format method: c presentation type broken
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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