[ python-Bugs-949605 ] UnicodeEncodeError message has syntax error

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Bugs item #949605, was opened at 2004-05-07 01:31
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 2
Submitted By: Tom Lynn (tlynn)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: UnicodeEncodeError message has syntax error

Initial Comment:
It's a bit nit-picking, but shouldn't the '\ua3' in the
UnicodeEncodeError message below be '\xa3' or u'\xa3'?
 http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/strings.html
only allows for \uxxxx and \Uxxxxxxxx format specifiers.

>>> u"\N{POUND SIGN}"
u'\xa3'
>>> _.encode("ascii")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character '\ua3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> '\ua3'
'\ua3'
>>> u'\ua3'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode
bytes in position 0-3: end of string in escape sequence


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