Terry Reedy wrote:
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| - Add ``isprintable()`` method to the string type. ``str.isprintable()``
|  return True if ``repr()`` should escape the characters in the string,
|  False otherwise.

Is not this backwards?  Isprintable to me mean should *not* escape.

I agree (I suspect the incorrect phrasing is due to the fact that this query method used to ask the opposite question - then the name got changed without updating the description)

Cheers,
Nick.

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