[docs] [issue25104] Wrong documentation for "chr(i)" function.

Zachary Ware report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 14 07:41:05 CEST 2015


Zachary Ware added the comment:

You appear to be reading the Python 3 documentation and using Python 2:

$ python3
Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 23 2015, 02:52:03) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> chr(1234)
'Ӓ'
>>> ^D
$ python2
Python 2.7.10 (v2.7.10:15c95b7d81dc, May 23 2015, 09:33:12) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> chr(1234)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)

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nosy: +zach.ware
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
type: compile error -> behavior

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