New submission from nudgenudge <py...@sogetthis.com>: The documentation of chr() and ord() fails to mention that on narrow Unicode builds, chr(n) will return a surrogate pair (hence a 2-character string) for n>=65536 and that ord(s) will accept a 2-character string if it's a surrogate pair.
Example: Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> list(chr(123456)) ['\ud838', '\ude40'] >>> len(chr(123456)) 2 >>> ord(chr(123456)) 123456 >>> ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 98648 nosy: georg.brandl, nudgenudge severity: normal status: open title: chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
