Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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?
It would just be a convenience function to do a string to string
conversion in code. I agree for an actual output stream you could just
set the encoding to ASCII with backslashreplace error handling.
Cheers,
Nick.
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