Armin Rigo added the comment:
@Serhiy: it's a behavior change and as such not an option for a micro release.
For example, the following legal code would behave differently: it would
compute s = '\\u1234' instead of s = 'UTF8:\xe1\x88\xb4'.
try:
s = repr(x)
except UnicodeEncodeError:
s = 'UTF8:' + x.value.encode('utf-8')
I think I agree that a working repr() is generally better, but in this case it
should point to the programmer that they should rather have __repr__() return
something sensible and avoid the trick above...
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