On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > import unirep > > print(*map(unirep.russian, objects)) > > That's okay if the objects are strings, but what about > non-string objects that contain strings? > > We'd need another protocol, such as __unirep__.
Or have str.__repr__() respect per-thread settings, the way decimal arithmetic does. Default settings would be in force most of the time; the interactive prompt would apply the user's settings when repr-ing a result. This approach solves the nested-strings problem quite nicely. But it does not catch error/warning/log messages when they are generated, unless the program does *everything* under custom repr settings (dangerous). There really are two use cases here: a human-readable repr for error/warning/log messages; and a machine-readable, always-the-same, ASCII-only repr. Users want to be able to tweak the former. -j _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
