python 3.3 repr

[Joel Goldstick]

>> Some of us have been doing this long enough to remember when "just plain
>> text" meant only a single case of the alphabet (and a subset of ascii
>> punctuation).  On an ASR-33, your C program would print like:
>>
>> MAIN() \(
>>         PRINTF("HELLO, ASCII WORLD");
>> \)
>>
>> because ASR-33's didn't have curly braces (or lower case).
>>
>> Having P3's repr() escape non-ascii characters today makes about as much
>> sense as expecting P2's repr() to escape curly braces (and vertical bars,
>> and a few others) because not every terminal can print those.
>>
> .....
> I can certainly remember those days, how we cried and laughed when 8 bits
> became popular.
>
Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits?  That's lovely (?).
;).  That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint
translations


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