Add C API PyUnicode_FromOrdinal() which exposes unichr() at C level.

u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.

Closes SF bug #593581.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index a915b2e..f5f4245 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -453,6 +453,14 @@ except KeyError:
 else:
     verify(value == u'abc, def')
 
+for ordinal in (-100, 0x20000):
+    try:
+        u"%c" % ordinal
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        print '*** formatting u"%%c" % %i should give a ValueError' % ordinal
+
 # formatting jobs delegated from the string implementation:
 verify('...%(foo)s...' % {'foo':u"abc"} == u'...abc...')
 verify('...%(foo)s...' % {'foo':"abc"} == '...abc...')