paul moore vlasdutgmailcom 15042008 terry reedy wrote guido van rossum wrote message sounds like doomed damned dont misunderstand practical suggestion understood thats sounded well suspect real solution languagecommunity even programmer specific since expect people would like chars know expect unescaped others left escaped perhaps unirep module stdlib used like import unirep printmapunireprussian objects even unirep import rus_print rus_printojbects kwds passed put another way repr single advantage near possible unambiguous using ascii ascii bit avoid ambiguity identicallooking glyphs readability explicitly goal context want readable version write import someone elses possibly stdlibs anyone writes one dont want change code write my_repr import my_repr repr fiddle builtins want across modules repr stay remembered intended reading debugging stephens point errors easily debuggable readable version englishonly view corner case although im happy concede valid one paul _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 172719 0100 python3000 recursive str