"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| Terry Reedy wrote:
| > I think standard Python should somehow have two options: escape
everything
| > but ASCII (for unambuguity and old display systems) and escape nothing
that
| > is potentially printable (leaving partially capable systems to fare as
they
| > will). In-between solutions will ultimately be programmer and system
| > specific.
|
| If repr() is made to work as Martin suggests (i.e. only escape the
| unprintable stuff), then the unicode_escape codec can be used fairly
| easily to restore the 2.x escape everything non-ASCII behaviour.
so print(s.encode('unicode_escape)) ?
Fine with me, especially if that or whatever is added to the repr() doc.
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