[Python-3000] Recursive str

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:04 PM, atsuo ishimoto <ishimoto at gembook.org> wrote:
> 2008/4/14, Michael Urman <murman at gmail.com>:
>
>  > This theory sounds good to me. Should it perhaps also convert Unicode
>  >  whitespace and control characters (categories Z* and C*)? While these
>  >  will often still be printable, like \n and \t they may not be
>  >  distinguishable from some number of ASCII spaces in printed form.
>
>  It would be nice, but make result of repr() less predictable a bit,
>  since result
>  of repr() depends on version of Unicode spec, not Python language.
>  I'm not sure it is harmful or not, but having a list of characters converted
>  in repr() (e.g. sys.nonprintablechars) might help.

I wouldn't worry too much about the version of the Unicode standard.
We have to do real work to start using a new version of the standard
anyway (like generating new data files) so this is unlikely to be
causing surprise failures.

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