Surprisingly, in this case the exception is just what the doctor ordered. :-)

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/2014 4:13 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>   - no value generated errors
>
> ...
>
>
> %c will insert a single byte, either from an int in range(256), or from
> a bytes argument of length 1.
>
>
> what does
>
> x = 354
> b"%c" % x
>
> produce?  Seems that construct produces a value dependent error in both
> python 2 & 3 (although it takes a much bigger value to produce the error in
> python 3, with str %... with bytes %, the problem with be reached at 256,
> just like python 2).
>
> Is this an intended exception to the overriding principle?
>
>
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