[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes at the interactive prompt

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 17 01:13:09 CEST 2008


I changed my mind already. :-) See my post of this morning in another thread.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM, atsuo ishimoto <ishimoto at gembook.org> wrote:
> 2008/4/16, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>
> > Note that this can be a feature too! You might have a filename that
>  >  *looks* normal but contains a character from a different language --
>  >  the \u encoding will show you the problem.
>
>  You won't call it a feature, if your *normal* encoding was koi8-r.
>



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