[Python-Dev] len(chr(i)) = 2? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Nov 19 22:43:45 CET 2010

In my opinion, the question is more what was it not fixed in Python2. I suppose that the answer is something ugly like "backward compatibility" or "historical reasons" :-)

No, there was a deliberate decision to not support that, see

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0261/

There had been a long discussion on this specific detail when PEP 261 was written, and in the end, an explicit, deliberate, considered decision was made to raise a ValueError.

Regards, Martin

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