On 14 Des, 05:46, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Yes. If you want a display that is guaranteed to work on your terminal, > use the ascii() builtin function.
But shouldn't the production of an object's representation via repr be a "safe" operation? That is, the operation should always produce a result, regardless of environmental factors like the locale or terminal's encoding support. If John were printing the object, it would be a different matter, but he apparently just wants to see a sequence of characters which represents the object. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
