[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> 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