[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 3 22:20:43 CEST 2008
> 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).
I think Atsuo envisioned you to invoke "repr_ascii(container)".
Regards,
Martin
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