> I don't know whether this is going to be obvious or controversial, > but here goes. Most of the time we're used to seeing a newline as > '\n', not as '\012', and newlines are typed in as '\n'. > > A newcomer to Python is likely to do > > >>> 'hello\n' > 'hello\012' > > and ask "what's \012?" -- whereupon one has to explain that it's an > octal escape, that 012 in octal equals 10, and that chr(10) is > newline, which is the same as '\n'. You're bound to run into this, > and you'll see \012 a lot, because \n is such a common character. > Aside from being slightly more frightening, '\012' also takes up > twice as many characters as necessary. > > So... i'm submitting a patch that causes the three most common > special whitespace characters, '\n', '\r', and '\t', to appear in > their natural form rather than as octal escapes when strings are > printed and repr()ed. +1 on the idea; no time to study the patch tonight. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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