[Python-3000] Thoughts on new I/O library and bytecode (original) (raw)

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Sun Mar 4 01:59:17 CET 2007

On 3/3/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

When Erlang is printing the "repr" of a list or binary term to the shell it first checks to see if every item is printable ASCII integer. If so, then it prints as an ASCII string. Otherwise, it prints as a list of decimal integers. It doesn't work out well in these kinds of situations. If it was printed out as ASCII with hex escapes then it would make a lot more sense at a glance.

Perhaps it would be best to make one format the default, but provide a convenience method on the bytes type for the other format?

repr(b) -> bytes("spam spam spam")' b.hex() -> "7370616d 20737061 6d207370 616d"

-- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC

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