python 3.3 repr

[Robin Becker]

On 15/11/2013 11:38, Ned Batchelder wrote:
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> In Python3, repr() will return a Unicode string, and will preserve existing Unicode characters in its arguments.  This has been controversial.  To get the Python 2 behavior of a pure-ascii representation, there is the new builtin ascii(), and a corresponding %a format string.
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> --Ned.
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thanks for this, edoesn't make the split across python2 - 3 any easier.
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Robin Becker