Newbie question about text encoding

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> '\udd00' should be a SyntaxError.

I find your argument convincing, that attempting to construct a Unicode
string of a lone surrogate should be an error.

Shouldn't the error type be a ValueError, though? The statement is not,
to my mind, erroneous syntax.

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Ben Finney