[Python-3000] Recursive str

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
>   > In Py3k we may be able to do something else though -- instead of
>   > insisting on ASCII we could allow a much larger set of characters to
>   > be unescaped.
>
>  Yes.  The implications of the PEP 3131 discussions about Unicode
>  identifiers should be considered carefully.  Eg, consider the
>  potential of confusing ASCII 'A' with Cyrillic 'A'.  I'm very unhappy
>  with the idea of having Cyrillic 'A' \u-escaped when calling repr() on
>  objects in a Russian's program, but I don't like the alternative of
>  having "print repr(bogus)" being no more informative than "print
>  bogus" in this situation any better.

So it sounds like we're doomed if we do, and damned if we don't. Or do
I misunderstand you? Do you have a practical suggestion?

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)