random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 07:35, Peter Otten wrote: >> >>> "%s nötig %s" % (u"üblich", u"ähnlich") >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: >> ordinal not in range(128) > > This is surprising to me - why is it trying to decode the format string, > rather than encode the arguments?
Probably to make it easier to mix byte and unicode strings. In hindsight it may not have been a good idea, but it had the potential to save some memory. I think that you may get a Unicode/Encode/Error when you try to /decode/ a unicode string is more confusing... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
