[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:54:24AM +0900, Atsuo Ishimoto wrote:
> If requirement for ASCII-repr is popular enough, we can provide a
> built-in function like this:
> 
> def repr_ascii(obj):
>     return str(repr(obj).encode("ASCII", "backslashreplace"), "ASCII")

   It is hard to apply the function for repr(container).
repr(container).encode("unicode_escape") is the only way (at least I don't
see any other way).

Oleg.
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