Issue 25104: Wrong documentation for "chr(i)" function. (original) (raw)

The documentation of the "chr(i)" function is not correct, it states that The valid range for the argument is from 0 through 1,114,111 (0x10FFFF in base 16).

Correction: The valid range for the argument is from 0 through 255 (0xFF in base 16).

You appear to be reading the Python 3 documentation and using Python 2:

$ python3 Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 23 2015, 02:52:03) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

chr(1234) 'Ӓ' ^D $ python2 Python 2.7.10 (v2.7.10:15c95b7d81dc, May 23 2015, 09:33:12) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. chr(1234) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)