[Python-Dev] String encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
> > before proceeding down this (not very slippery but slightly
> > unfortunate, imho) slope, I think we should decide whether
> > 
> >     assert eval(repr(s)) == s
> > 
> > should be true for strings.

footnote: as far as I can tell, the language reference says it should:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/string-conversions.html

> This is a different discussion which I don't really want to
> get into... I don't have any need for repr() being locale
> dependent, since I only use it for debugging purposes and
> never to rebuild objects (marshal and pickle are much better
> at that).

in other words, you leave it to 'pickle' to call 'repr' for you ;-)

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