Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I verified Marks 3.4.1 result with Idle.
It strikes me as a bug that a function that maps a unicode format string to a unicode string with interpolations added should ever encode the format to bytes, lets alone using using an encoding that fails or loses information. It is especially weird given that % formatting does not even work (at present) for bytes. It seems to me that strftime should never encode the non-special parts of the format text. Instead, it could split the format (re.split) into a list of alternatine '%x' pairs and running text segments, replace the '%x' entries with the proper entries, and return the list joined back into a string. Some replacements would be locale dependent, other not. (Just wondering, are the locate names of days and months bytes restricted to ascii or unrestricted unicode using native characters?) ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8304> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
