Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> '\udd00' should be a SyntaxError. > > I find your argument convincing, that attempting to construct a > Unicode string of a lone surrogate should be an error.
Then we're back to square one: >>> b'\x80'.decode('utf-8', errors='surrogateescape') '\udc80' Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list