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Subject: Re: Newbie question about text encoding
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:27:56 -0400
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On Sun, Mar 8, 2015, at 22:09, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
> 
> > '\udd00' should be a SyntaxError.
> 
> I find your argument convincing, that attempting to construct a Unicode
> string of a lone surrogate should be an error.
> 
> Shouldn't the error type be a ValueError, though? The statement is not,
> to my mind, erroneous syntax.

In this hypothetical, it's a problem with evaluating a literal - in the
same way that '\U12345', or '\U00110000, is.