On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> '\udd00' should be a SyntaxError. > > I find your argument convincing, that attempting to construct a Unicode > string of a lone surrogate should be an error. > > Shouldn't the error type be a ValueError, though? The statement is not, > to my mind, erroneous syntax.
For the string literal, I would say SyntaxError is more appropriate than ValueError, as a string object has to be constructed at compilation time. I'd still like to see a report from someone who has used a language that specifically disallows all surrogates in strings. Does it help? Is it more hassle than it's worth? Are there weird edge cases that it breaks? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
