[Python-Dev] Use of %c and Py_UNICODE

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:
> 
> > Format characters will always
> > be ASCII and thus 7-bit -- theres really no need to expand the
> > set of possibilities beyond 8 bits ;-)
> 
> But the error message is being produced because the
> character is NOT a valid format character. One of the
> reasons for that might be because it's not in the
> 7-bit range!

True. 

I think removing %c completely in that case is the right
solution (in case you don't want to convert the Unicode char
using the default encoding to a string first).

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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