[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes at the interactive prompt

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:11:13PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> atsuo ishimoto wrote:
> > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e'
> 
> This is starting to seem to me more like something to be addressed 
> through sys.displayhook/excepthook at the interactive interpreter level 

   The problem manifests itself in scripts, too:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ttt.py", line 4, in <module>
    open("тест") # filename is in koi8-r encoding
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\xd4\xc5\xd3\xd4'

Oleg.
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