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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson
Date	2010-08-12.17:52:36
SpamBayes Score	4.1463686e-09
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Message-id	<1281635558.42.0.560480502776.issue9578@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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>>> int('\xA11') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 0: invalid start byte This is inconsistent with other number types' behavior: >>> float(b'\xA1') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: could not convert string to float: �

>>> int('\xA11')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 0: invalid start byte

This is inconsistent with other number types' behavior: 
>>> float(b'\xA1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: �

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-08-12 17:52:39	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, mark.dickinson
2010-08-12 17:52:38	belopolsky	set	messageid: <1281635558.42.0.560480502776.issue9578@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-08-12 17:52:36	belopolsky	link	issue9578 messages
2010-08-12 17:52:36	belopolsky	create