Re: Python 3.0 and repr

2008-09-28 Thread Mark Tolonen
""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What are others' opinions? Any insight to this design decision? The intention is that all printable characters in a string get displayed in repr. This was in particular requested by Japanese users (but also by ot

Re: Python 3.0 and repr

2008-09-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What are others' opinions? Any insight to this design decision? The intention is that all printable characters in a string get displayed in repr. This was in particular requested by Japanese users (but also by other users of non-ASCII characters) which complained that repr() is fairly useless i

Python 3.0 and repr

2008-09-28 Thread Mark Tolonen
I don't understand the behavior of the interpreter in Python 3.0. I am working at a command prompt in Windows (US English), which has a terminal encoding of cp437. In Python 2.5: Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyr