[Python-Dev] Re: Multibyte repr() (original) (raw)

Atsuo Ishimoto ishimoto@gembook.org
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:17:11 +0900

Hello,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:04:05 -0400 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

Oops. It looks like this is the nail in the coffin of the locale-specific repr(): a multibyte "character" may end in a backslash that is not escaped.

Martin, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do except revert your multibyte character checkins...

I with to multibyte character checkins remain. Hex coded strings are realy nasty for debugging.

As for illegal-pickle issue, it is easy to fix this problem. We just need to provide a simple function that converts string to canonical Python literal representaion, as old repr() does.

Regards,

Atsuo Ishimoto ishimoto@gembook.org Homepage:http://www.gembook.jp