Message 126302 - Python tracker

Message126302

Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, eric.smith, vstinner
Date	2011-01-14.22:05:02
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Message-id	<1295042708.41.0.786360452265.issue10833@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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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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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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-14 22:05:08	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, eric.smith
2011-01-14 22:05:08	vstinner	set	messageid: <1295042708.41.0.786360452265.issue10833@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-14 22:05:02	vstinner	link	issue10833 messages
2011-01-14 22:05:02	vstinner	create