[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu May 1 19:33:48 CEST 2008


"Martin v. Löwis" writes:

 > The escaping that repr() does is *not* to achieve unambiguity,
 > but to achieve printability.

Well, if that is the case, then I withdraw my comments pretty much
entirely, and apologize for the noise.  I think you've already
specified what is needed to achieve printability correctly.



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