On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote: > There have been some requests (Francois Pinard, recently Alexander > Voinov) that repr() of a string should not use escape sequences for > characters that are printable according to the locale. > > I don't have the time to write a PEP or implement it (although it > should be simple enough) but it needs to be recorded as a feature that > I think is good (that's at least a +0). I don't. Most people who are requesting it are requesting it for the purpose of the interactive Python session. I think there is general agreement that there should be a way to better control the REPL from Python (my, now lost, sys.display patch, for example). Wouldn't that solve the problem? -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez
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