Message 83669 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

About Python3, bytes.center accepts unicode as second argument, which is an error for me:

b"x".center(5, b"\xe9") b'\xe9\xe9x\xe9\xe9' b"x".center(5, "\xe9") b'\xe9\xe9x\xe9\xe9'

The second example must fail with a TypeError.

str.center has the right behaviour:

"x".center(5, "\xe9") 'ééxéé' "x".center(5, b"\xe9") TypeError: The fill character cannot be converted to Unicode