[Python-Dev] bpo-30806 netrc.__repr__() is broken for writing to file (GH-2491)

[Serhiy Storchaka]

30.09.17 10:10, INADA Naoki пише:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b24cd055ecb3eea9a15405a6ca72dafc739e6531
> commit: b24cd055ecb3eea9a15405a6ca72dafc739e6531
> branch: master
> author: James Sexton <TwistedLadder at gmail.com>
> committer: INADA Naoki <methane at users.noreply.github.com>
> date: 2017-09-30T16:10:31+09:00
> summary:
> 
> bpo-30806 netrc.__repr__() is broken for writing to file (GH-2491)
> 
> netrc file format doesn't support quotes and escapes.
> 
> See https://linux.die.net/man/5/netrc

The commit message looks confusing to me. Is netrc.__repr__() is broken 
now? Or this change makes netrc file format supporting quotes and 
escapes now?

Please read the following thread: 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111303.html.