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Author vstinner
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, eric.smith, vstinner
Date 2011-01-14.22:05:02
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belopolsky> Limiting field width when formatting error messages is 
belopolsky> a good safety measure.

The problem is that PyUnicode_FromFormatV() doesn't support %.100s format (it ignores .100). If we truncate at 100 bytes, it may truncate an UTF-8 string in the middle of a character :-/ And I don't want to implement it because I don't like arbitrary limitations in Python.
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