Jim Jewett writes: > > Otherwise, they might grumble about the fact that what > > they're seeing isn't English, but it doesn't matter whether it's > > hex-escaped or kanji. > > I'm more worried that it might look like English, yet be subtly (and > importantly) different.
Let me remind you that I advocated that position, and (1) Martin shot me down hard, and (2) Guido indicated that it is a point, but he now seems happy enough not to worry about it. If you're serious about that, you need to pick up the ball; I'm not comfortable advocating it, especially in view of the wide variety of cases where it seems to be used for something other than diagnosing normally invisible features of output. > I just want it to be very easy to say "on my system, repr is ASCII". That is in all proposals. > I would prefer that ASCII also be the default, so that people who want > more characters opt in to receive them, Well, the people who want more characters include all non-Americans and some large fraction of Americans. I don't see how "Better Is Better" can possibly beat "Worse Is Better" here, given the extent to which repr is used to produce output meaningful to end-users (vs. diagnostics for application and/or Python maintainers). _______________________________________________ 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
