[Python-Dev] Re: Multibyte repr()

[Atsuo Ishimoto]

Hello,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:59:26 -0400
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

> [Guido]
> > > Well, if you *want* to see the hex codes for all non-ASCII characters,
> > > repr() used to be your friend.  No more.  If you *want* to see the
> > > printable characters, you could always use print.
> 
> [Atsuo Ishimoto]
> > I'm happy with this.
> 
> "This" was ambiguous.  Are you happy with what's in current CVS, or
> with the old repr()?

Sorry. I meant I'm happy with current CVS.

> I tried this, and I could not find any problems with the resulting
> pickle.  The pickle looks like this:
> 
> "S'\\x83\\\\'\np0\n."
> 
> I couldn't get this to fail loading in Python 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 (CVS);
> I tried both pickle and cPickle.

May be you tried with ascii or latin-1 locale. But with Japanese
ShiftJIS encoding, you'll see the traceback on unpickling. 
I tried CVS version of python on Japanese edition of Win2000, I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\cygwin\home\ishimoto\wk\python\dist\src\lib\pickle.py", line 1071, in loads
    return Unpickler(file).load()
  File "C:\cygwin\home\ishimoto\wk\python\dist\src\lib\pickle.py", line 675, in load
    dispatch[key](self)
  File "C:\cygwin\home\ishimoto\wk\python\dist\src\lib\pickle.py", line 754, in load_string
    self.append(rep.decode("string-escape"))
ValueError: Trailing \ in string

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Atsuo Ishimoto
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