Issue 4584: doctest fails to display bytes type (original) (raw)
Issue4584
Created on 2008-12-07 21:44 by msyang, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg77264 - (view) | Author: Michael Yang (msyang) | Date: 2008-12-07 21:44 |
| doctest.testmod() fails when attempting to echo back a bytes type with ord() > 128. def ok(): """ >>> bytes([255,]) b'\xff' """ pass def notOK(): """ >>> b'\xff' """ pass import doctest doctest.testmod() Traceback (most recent call last): ... UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xff' in position 141: ordinal not in range(128) | ||
| msg77268 - (view) | Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *  |
Date: 2008-12-07 22:01 |
| You've included a chr(255) character in your docstring. You need to escape the backslash in order to include the bytes representation like it will be generated. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:56:42 | admin | set | github: 48834 |
| 2008-12-07 22:01:06 | georg.brandl | set | status: open -> closedresolution: not a bugmessages: + nosy: + georg.brandl |
| 2008-12-07 21:44:06 | msyang | create |