gh-89157: Make C and Python implementation of datetime.date.fromisoformat consistent.

Lib/_pydatetime.py

@@ -1051,8 +1051,12 @@ def fromordinal(cls, n):
     @classmethod
     def fromisoformat(cls, date_string):
         """Construct a date from a string in ISO 8601 format."""
+
         if not isinstance(date_string, str):
-            raise TypeError('fromisoformat: argument must be str')
+            raise TypeError('Argument must be a str')
+
+        if not date_string.isascii():
+            raise ValueError('Argument must be an ASCII str')
 
         if len(date_string) not in (7, 8, 10):
             raise ValueError(f'Invalid isoformat string: {date_string!r}')

Lib/test/datetimetester.py

@@ -2083,6 +2083,7 @@ def test_fromisoformat_fails(self):
             '10000-W25-1',      # Invalid year
             '2020-W25-0',       # Invalid day-of-week
             '2020-W25-8',       # Invalid day-of-week
+            '٢025-03-09'        # Unicode characters
             '2009\ud80002\ud80028',     # Separators are surrogate codepoints
         ]
 
@@ -3534,7 +3535,7 @@ def test_fromisoformat_fails_datetime(self):
             '2009-04-19T03:15:4500:00',     # Bad time zone separator
             '2009-04-19T03:15:45.123456+24:30',    # Invalid time zone offset
             '2009-04-19T03:15:45.123456-24:30',    # Invalid negative offset
-            '2009-04-10ᛇᛇᛇᛇᛇ12:15',         # Too many unicode separators
+            '2009-04-10ᛇᛇᛇᛇᛇ12:15',         # Unicode chars
             '2009-04\ud80010T12:15',        # Surrogate char in date
             '2009-04-10T12\ud80015',        # Surrogate char in time
             '2009-04-19T1',                 # Incomplete hours

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-09-10-37-00.gh-issue-89157.qg3r138.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Make the pure Python implementation of :func:`datetime.date.fromisoformat`,
+only accept ASCII strings for consistency with the C implementation.