oleg broytmann otdphdppru sat may 03 2008 102043pm 0200 martin v lwis wrote 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 knows string representations objects container chance encode repr escape unescape result wrong way insist anything think printable repr reprencodeunicode_escape satisfy needs im pointing could problem dont know important oleg oleg broytmann httpphdppru otdphdppru programmers dont die gosub without return _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 134726 0400 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes