[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 1 18:33:05 CEST 2008

The problem is that this doesn't display the representation of strings and identifier names in an unambiguous way. "AKMOT" could be all-ASCII, it could be all-Cyrillic, or it could be a mixture of ASCII, Cyrillic, and Greek.

I don't see this is a problem. Yes, it can happen, but no, it is not a problem.

Unless I lost the thread, we are still talking about the repr() of regular strings here, right?

How about choosing a standard Python repertoire (based on the Unicode standard, of course) of which characters get a graphic repr and which ones get \u-escaped, and have a post-hook for repr which gets passed the string repr proposes to print out?

You mean, you only display the characters if they form a valid identifier? That would not be good, since it would disallow display of symbols.

Regards, Martin

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