On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:34:08 +0100, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > Hi, > > There seems to be some inconsistency in the way exceptions handle > Unicode strings.
Yes. I believe the problem lies in the __str__ method. For example, KeyError manages to handle Unicode, although in an ugly way: py> str(KeyError(u'ä')) "u'\\xe4'" Hence: py> raise KeyError(u'ä') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> KeyError: u'\xe4' While ValueError assumes ASCII and fails: py> str(ValueError(u'ä')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) When displaying the traceback, the error is suppressed, hence: py> raise ValueError(u'ä') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError I believe this might be accepted as a bug report on ValueError. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
