greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz 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 im sure though maybe sort locale setting makes repr string escape chars fall kind normal set according users native language greg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 021049 1200 python3000 recursive str