[Python-3000] Recursive str

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> The more I think about this, the more I believe that repr() should
> *not* be changed, and that instead we should give people who like to
> see '日本語' instead of '\u1234\u5678\u9abc' other tools to help
> themselves.

This seems to be a rather ASCII-centric way of thinking
about things, though, which I thought py3k was trying
to get away from, with unicode being the one and only
string type.

Maybe it really is the only practical option, but I
can understand non-ASCII speakers feeling disappointed.

-- 
Greg