[issue33317] `repr()` of string in NFC and NFD forms does not differ

[Pekka Klärck]

Pekka Klärck <pekka.klarck at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks for pointing out `ascii()`. Seems to do exactly what I want.

`repr()` showing combining characters would, in my opinion, still be useful to avoid problems like I demonstrated with unittest and pytest. I doubt it's a good idea with them to use `ascii()` instead of `repr()` by default because on Python 3 the latter generally works much better with non-ASCII text.

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