Chris Jerdonek added the comment: What about cases like this?
>>> f.format(u'{0}', '\xe9') '\xe9' It seems fixing this issue for non-empty strings would cause formerly running cases like this to raise UnicodeDecodeError. >>> unicode('\xe9') ... UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) Would that be acceptable? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15951> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com