On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > Le 26/07/2011 15:30, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> Actually, you want %a for non-ASCII messages to be escaped. > > Thanks for the reminder, I should use more %a instead of %r. In the > packaging code however, we can’t, given that we want to backport. > >> (however, there's hardly any reason to worry about it when it comes to >> stdlib module names) > > I lacked context to see that. If the code in question only ever handles > stdlib modules, then okay.
The other reason to use %r is to get the enclosing quotes in the displayed message. That reason applies even in cases like this where the escaping aspect isn't a concern. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
