> > I think "standard repertoire based on Unicode" may be confusing the issue. > > By "standard repertoire" I mean that all Pythons will show the same > characters the same way, while "based on Unicode" is intended to mean > looking at TR#36 and TR#39 in picking the repertoires.
I don't think either TR#36 or TR#39 are applicable here. This is not identifier syntax; there may various symbols and whatnot in the string, which should also be rendered as-is. The escaping that repr() does is *not* to achieve unambiguity, but to achieve printability. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
