[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 3 20:00:05 CEST 2008
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Nick Coghlan writes: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> Is new built-in function desirable, or just document is good enough? > > > > Traditionally, I take the position that new built-in functions are > > rarely desirable; this one is no exception. > > I agree with that, but string.reprascii may be a reasonable thing to add.
But this is basically completely a codec issue. We have an internal representation, and we want to translate it in a stream-oriented way to an external representation. Unless there's an efficiency issue, why not just provide a hook for a codec?
It would just be a convenience function to do a string to string conversion in code. I agree for an actual output stream you could just set the encoding to ASCII with backslashreplace error handling.
Cheers, Nick.
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