[Python-3000] Fwd: UPDATED: PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Atsuo Ishimoto wrote:
>
>> I'm not comfortable with "printable", too. Is "legible" better? This
>> is first time for me to see this word in my life :).
>
> The term "printable" has a long history in computing of
> meaning that a character code corresponds to some visual
> glyph, even if the display process involved isn't literally
> printing. It would be confusing to replace it with something
> else now, I think.

Agreed. I'm +1 on everything the PEP specifies. I'll accept it
tomorrow. Other developers, please review Atsuo's patch in
http://bugs.python.org/issue2630 .

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