[Python-3000] Recursive str

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
>    str([a, b, c]) currently does a wrong thing if items are non-ascii
>  strings - calling repr() on them produces '\XXX' escapes instead of
>  a readable representation.

But merely calling str() on the items instead of repr() isn't good
enough here: we don't want str(['1, 2']) to return '[1, 2]'.  We'd
need a third form (eek!) that would preserve the string quotes but be
more lenient about non-ASCII. Personally, I think some custom loop to
print the values is good enough.

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