[Ping] >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. I like it, because it removes yet another difference between Python and Jython. Jython happens to handle these chars specially: \n, \t, \b, \f and \r. regards, finn
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