[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[Nick Coghlan]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nick Coghlan writes:
>  > Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>  > >> Is new built-in function desirable, or just document is good enough?
>  > > 
>  > > Traditionally, I take the position that new built-in functions are
>  > > rarely desirable; this one is no exception.
>  > 
>  > I agree with that, but string.repr_ascii may be a reasonable thing to add.
> 
> But this is basically completely a codec issue.  We have an internal
> representation, and we want to translate it in a stream-oriented way
> to an external representation.  Unless there's an efficiency issue,
> why not just provide a hook for a codec?

It would just be a convenience function to do a string to string 
conversion in code. I agree for an actual output stream you could just 
set the encoding to ASCII with backslashreplace error handling.

Cheers,
Nick.

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