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Author	markeganfuller
Recipients	docs@python, ezio.melotti, markeganfuller, r.david.murray, reynir, tim.golden
Date	2013-09-23.10:28:02
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Message-id	<1379932082.55.0.506081911596.issue17777@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Python correctly throws a unicode error here, directing the user towards the fact that this is an issue specifically with the unicode escaping. >>> "\u" File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: truncated \uXXXX escape The documentation also states that "Any Unicode character can be encoded this way. Exactly eight hex digits are required."[0]. Propose closing this as Won't Fix. [0]: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals

Python correctly throws a unicode error here, directing the user towards the fact that this is an issue specifically with the unicode escaping.

>>> "\u"
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: truncated \uXXXX escape


The documentation also states that "Any Unicode character can be encoded this way. Exactly eight hex digits are required."[0].

Propose closing this as Won't Fix.

[0]: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals

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Date	User	Action	Args
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