[issue7267] format method: c presentation type broken

[Walter Dörwald]

Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> added the comment:

I'd say that a value >= 128 should generate a Unicode string (as the PEP
explicitely states that the value is a Unicode code point and not a byte
value).

However str.format() doesn't seem to support mixing str and unicode anyway:

>>> '{0}'.format(u'\u3042')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u3042' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

so str.format() might raise an OverflowError for values >= 128 (or >= 256?)

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