Hi, On 1 March 2017 at 02:18, qhlonline <qhlonl...@163.com> wrote: > Yes, We are both python users with languages OTHER then English, It is a > headache when looking at the print output of dicts with other language > encoding. They are just byte array. I am using python2.7
Please note that unless this is still a problem in python 3, this is unlikely to be changed. __repr__ is (as per the docs) 'a printable string representation of the object'. If this were to get changed, many APIs might be broken due to tuples not having the same methods and/or features as strings, e.g. you cannot use them as a path. Not saying that they will, but it's potentially breaking a lot of code which interacts with other programs, and maybe even some internals. You are free to experiment with overriding/extending __repr__ for your internal usage, but please note that it might break external libraries depending on obj.__repr__ or repr(obj), and print() might break when using built-in types as containers for your objects. I am a -1 on changing __repr__'s signature. -Matthias _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/