Nick Coghlan writes: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> Is new built-in function desirable, or just document is good enough? > > > > Traditionally, I take the position that new built-in functions are > > rarely desirable; this one is no exception. > > I agree with that, but string.repr_ascii may be a reasonable thing to add.
But this is basically completely a codec issue. We have an internal representation, and we want to translate it in a stream-oriented way to an external representation. Unless there's an efficiency issue, why not just provide a hook for a codec? _______________________________________________ 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
