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

[Greg Ewing]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> 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'

In that particular case, I'd say the IOError constructor
is doing the wrong thing -- it should be using something
like

   "No such file or directory: '%s'" % filename\

instead of

   "No such file or directory: %r" % filename

i.e. %r shouldn't be used as a quick and dirty way to
get a string quoted.

-- 
Greg