Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: How it can break backward compatibility? Currently repr() just raises UnicodeEncodeError.
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) With patch it always returns 8-bit string. As far as repr() usually used for debugging the second alternative looks more helpful. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
