Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: Note that on Py2.6, when, for example, a string is assigned to u.start and u.end a TypeError is raised, and the value is then set to -1: >>> u=UnicodeTranslateError(u'x', 1, 5, 'bah') >>> u.start = 'foo' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: an integer is required >>> u.end = 'bar' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: an integer is required >>> str(u) "can't translate characters in position -1--2: bah" >>> u.start, u.end (-1, -1)
Is it possible to change the values assigning an int (or even a float that is then converted to int). On py3k the behavior is different; as Trundle said, it segfaults easily, and trying to change the value of u.start and u.end returns a different error: >>> u.start = 'foo' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> SystemError: Objects/longobject.c:441: bad argument to internal function Also note that on both the versions there's no check on these values either, it's easy to have a segfault doing this: >>> u = UnicodeTranslateError(u'x', 1, 5, 'bah') >>> u.start = 2**30 >>> u.end = 2**30+1 >>> str(u) (if the char is only one, Python will try to read it and display it) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7309> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
