On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 1:04 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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. > Is this why __unicode__ was removed in favor of just __str__? It can be argued that logfiles should also be shell control character escaped at ingestion time. > -- > 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/ >
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