martin v löwis qpnyslvloewisde sat may 03 2008 095424am 0900 atsuo ishimoto wrote requirement asciirepr popular enough provide builtin function like def repr_asciiobj return strreprobjencodeascii backslashreplace ascii hard apply function reprcontainer reprcontainerencodeunicode_escape way least dont see way think atsuo envisioned invoke repr_asciicontainer regards martin _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 114548 0200 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes