[pypy-issue] [issue1634] Exception: ..unreadable backslash stuff..

[Armin Rigo]

Armin Rigo <armin.rigo at gmail.com> added the comment:

Well, now that I'm past the original eyebrow-raising reaction, I guess the
obvious answer is: don't raise exceptions with unicode messages.  The message is
going to be missing (CPython 2) or unreadable ( PyPy or traceback.py).  Instead,
raise exceptions with messages in English.  It is surely something you learn
very early if you write Python code in a non-English setting.  I suspect that's
why it was never considered a bug but just a fact of life.

CPython 3 does the right thing about this, as far as I can tell.

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