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python 2 string formatting fun
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example.py
$ python2.7
Python 2.7.14 (default, Sep 22 2017, 00:06:07)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> value = u'\u0141uk\u0105\u015b\u017a'
>>> '%s' % value
u'\u0141uk\u0105\u015b\u017a'
>>> '{}'.format(value)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0141' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
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