On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:
There have been some requests (Francois Pinard, recently Alexander Voinov) that repr() of a string should not use escape sequences for characters that are printable according to the locale.
I don't have the time to write a PEP or implement it (although it should be simple enough) but it needs to be recorded as a feature that I think is good (that's at least a +0).
I don't. Most people who are requesting it are requesting it for the purpose of the interactive Python session. I think there is general agreement that there should be a way to better control the REPL from Python (my, now lost, sys.display patch, for example). Wouldn't that solve the problem? -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez