[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks

[Larry Hastings]

On 06/22/2012 03:48 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 22/06/2012 21:45, Larry Hastings wrote:
>> On 06/22/2012 01:29 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> Of course. And character 32 <space> is also not usable and perhaps not
>>> worth testing.
>>
>> Au contraire!  I grant you, it's hard to imagine how using it would be a
>> good idea.  But strictly speaking it is *usable*.  (And what is this
>> thread about if not wanton pedantry!)
>>
>> Therefore I'm leaving it in.  Feel free to go behind my back and fix it
>> if you feel strongly about this.
>>
> It _is_ a printable character after all.

Well, if we wanted to get *really* pedantic--and, who am I kidding, of 
course we do, this is python-dev--any byte besides 0 would *work* as a 
format unit, printable or not.  But who among us would dare?


//arry/
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