On 16/03/20 2:27 pm, Christopher Barker wrote:
I imagine a LOT of code out there (doctests, who know what else) does in fact expect the str() of builtins not to change -- so this is probably dead in the water.
Also, strs and reprs of arbitrary objects often end up in places such as log files which aren't equipped to handle unicode or other fancy things. So keeping them as basic as possible is a good idea. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HBXM7ET3U3X2MUU2PVH57XHZ7EV27D5X/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
