[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:49:37PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I think standard Python should somehow have two options: escape everything 
> but ASCII (for unambuguity and old display systems) and escape nothing that 
> is potentially printable (leaving partially capable systems to fare as they 
> will).  In-between solutions will ultimately be programmer and system 
> specific.

   +1

   repr() should not escape printable chars, and there should be a codec to
escape everything, so one could write mystring.encode("escape_string").

Oleg.
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