Re: [Python-ideas] Make bytes __repr__ and __str__ representation different?

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 01:35:41PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

On 21 November 2017 at 13:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

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I'd rather leave __str__ and __repr__ alone. Changing them will have huge backwards compatibility implications. I'd rather give bytes a hexdump() method that returns a string:

'2a 2b 2d 2e 2f'

Do you mean, like bytes.hex?

Guido's Time Machine strikes again! -- Steve