guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg sat apr 12 2008 517 pm greg ewing wrote guido van rossum wrote wed need third form eek would preserve string quotes lenient nonascii personally think custom loop print values good enough might serious problem chars string ascii eg japanese user whose strings consist almost entirely nonascii part constitutes perfectly readable text straightforward way display list strings readable form complaint would carry weight came someone actually deal issue coming purely theoretical perspective unless im wrong actually read japanese another issue repr supposed return 8bit string dont think put nonascii characters output encoding im sure though maybe sort locale setting makes repr string escape chars fall kind normal set according users native language would worse making repr nonpredictable localespecific eeeek py3k may able something else though instead insisting ascii could allow much larger set characters unescaped guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 073410 0700 python3000 recursive str