>> This is intended behavior. > > I see. That means that the behaviour in Python 1.6 to 2.6 (i.e. > encoding the text using the repr() function (as then defined) was not > intended behaviour?
Sure. This behavior has not changed. It still uses repr(). Of course, the string type has changed in 3.0, and now uses a different definition of repr. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
