On 15/11/2013 11:38, Ned Batchelder wrote: ..........
In Python3, repr() will return a Unicode string, and will preserve existing Unicode characters in its arguments. This has been controversial. To get the Python 2 behavior of a pure-ascii representation, there is the new builtin ascii(), and a corresponding %a format string. --Ned.
thanks for this, edoesn't make the split across python2 - 3 any easier. -- Robin Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list