New submission from Aaron Watters: As I understand it comparisons between two objects should always work. I get this at the interpreter prompt:
Python 2.6a0 (trunk, Jan 11 2008, 11:40:59) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> unichr(0xffff) < chr(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> I think the fix for this case is to do something arbitrary but consistent if possible? ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 61976 nosy: aaron_watters severity: normal status: open title: unicode and string compare should not cause an exception type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1997> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
