[Python-Dev] len(chr(i)) = 2?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> In my opinion, the question is more what was it not fixed in Python2. I suppose 
> that the answer is something ugly like "backward compatibility" or "historical 
> reasons" :-)

No, there was a deliberate decision to not support that, see

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0261/

There had been a long discussion on this specific detail when PEP 261
was written, and in the end, an explicit, deliberate, considered
decision was made to raise a ValueError.

Regards,
Martin