JKPeck wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer. I thought repr was involved here, but > when I use repr explicitly I get a notation where the backslashes are > escaped. I also though that with the encoding explictily declared in > the source, that repr would take that into account and use the > character form, but obviously it doesn't.
The encoding in the source has nothing to do with that. How should an encoding (and possibly a gazillion different ones in gazillion other sourcefiles of yours) influence the list repr code? The encoding in the source-file is solely used to correctly parse unicode literals, as these need a specific encoding to be generated from the byte-string they are in the sourcecode. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
