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Sun Oct 2 16:21:49 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-October/113791.html

On 10/02/11 01:14, victor.stinner wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9124a00df142
> changeset:   72573:9124a00df142
> parent:      72571:fa0b1e50270f
> user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>
> date:        Sat Oct 01 23:48:37 2011 +0200
> summary:
>   PyUnicode_FromKindAndData() raises a ValueError if the kind is unknown
> 
> files:
>   Objects/unicodeobject.c |  2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
> --- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
> +++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
> @@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@
>      case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
>          return _PyUnicode_FromUCS4(buffer, size);
>      }
> -    assert(0);
> +    PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "invalid kind");
>      return NULL;
>  }

Is that really a ValueError? It should only be a ValueError if the user
could trigger that error. Otherwise it should be a SystemError.

Georg

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