[Python-3000] UPDATED: PEP 3138- String representation in Python3000

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat May 24 22:15:28 CEST 2008


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| - Add ``isprintable()`` method to the string type. ``str.isprintable()``
|  return True if ``repr()`` should escape the characters in the string,
|  False otherwise.

Is not this backwards?  Isprintable to me mean should *not* escape. 





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