On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or perhaps showing the repr of the string would be clearer.
This would definitely be better, I think, and require no special casing of the empty string. Still, I doubt this would ever be backported for fear of breaking code might be out there somewhere which relies on the current behavior. At best, it might be added to the next 3.x release (3.7?). Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
