[issue4927] Inconsistent unicode repr for fileobject

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

I think path names should be printed with forward slashes on Windows as
well as elsewhere to avoid this type of confusion, and this.
>>> sb
'tmp\\foo'
>>> print(sb)
tmp\foo
(Of course I know why.)

Users have been advised on python-list by various people to enter
literal paths with forward slashes for the same reason.  Printing them
out that way would encourage and reinforce this.

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nosy: +tjreedy

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