Issue 7828: chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters (original) (raw)

The documentation of chr() and ord() fails to mention that on narrow Unicode builds, chr(n) will return a surrogate pair (hence a 2-character string) for n>=65536 and that ord(s) will accept a 2-character string if it's a surrogate pair.

Example: Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

list(chr(123456)) ['\ud838', '\ude40'] len(chr(123456)) 2 ord(chr(123456)) 123456