[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[Nick Coghlan]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> I think standard Python should somehow have two options: escape everything 
> but ASCII (for unambuguity and old display systems) and escape nothing that 
> is potentially printable (leaving partially capable systems to fare as they 
> will).  In-between solutions will ultimately be programmer and system 
> specific.

If repr() is made to work as Martin suggests (i.e. only escape the 
unprintable stuff), then the unicode_escape codec can be used fairly 
easily to restore the 2.x escape everything non-ASCII behaviour.

Cheers,
Nick.

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