STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
('%c' % 255) == chr(255) == '\xff'
'%c' % 256 raise an "OverflowError: unsigned byte integer is greater than
maximum" and chr(256) raise a "ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)". I
prefer the second error ;-)
str.format() should follow the same behaviour.
str is a byte string: it can be used to create a network packet or encode data
into a byte stream. '%c' is useful for that, and str.format() should keep this
nice feature.
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