[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> The nice thing about hex-escaped characters is that I can look up the
> character code to find out what the character is.  Hard to do that
> with a glyph that I don't recognize.

Not that difficult. Suppose I have the character Ә, I just do

py> unicodedata.name(u"Ә")
'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA'

I used cut-n-paste to insert the character into the interactive prompt;
that worked just fine.

Regards,
Martin