Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think this a known limitation as per https://bugs.python.org/issue23637#msg239361 where non-ASCII characters would require byte string. I couldn't find the relevant documentation for it though.
$ ./python.exe Python 2.7.15+ (remotes/upstream/2.7:69d0bc1430, Sep 24 2018, 16:02:09) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import warnings >>> >>> warnings.warn(b'blé') __main__:1: UserWarning: blé >>> warnings.warn(u'blé') >>> Thanks ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34752> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
