[Python-Dev] Use of %c and Py_UNICODE
Tim Peters
tim.one@home.com
Sun, 17 Dec 2000 02:34:27 -0500
[MAL]
> Why would you want to fix it ? Format characters will always
> be ASCII and thus 7-bit -- theres really no need to expand the
> set of possibilities beyond 8 bits ;-)
[AMK]
> This message is for characters that aren't format characters, which
> therefore includes all characters >127.
I'm with the wise man who suggested to drop the %c in this case and just
display the hex value. Although it would be more readable to drop the %c if
and only if the bogus format character isn't printable 7-bit ASCII. Which
is obvious, yes? A new if/else isn't going to hurt anything.