On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>> |
>> | - Add ``isprintable()`` method to the string type. ``str.isprintable()``
>> | return True if ``repr()`` should escape the characters in the string,
>> | False otherwise.
>>
>> Is not this ba
Terry Reedy wrote:
|
| - Add ``isprintable()`` method to the string type. ``str.isprintable()``
| return True if ``repr()`` should escape the characters in the string,
| False otherwise.
Is not this backwards? Isprintable to me mean should *not* escape.
I agree (I suspect the incorrect phra
> Not that difficult. Suppose I have the character Ó, I just do
>
> py> unicodedata.name(u"Ó")
> 'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA'
>
> I used cut-n-paste to insert the character into the interactive prompt;
> that worked just fine.
I suppose, if I knew about unicodedata.name(), and if my cursed
|
| - Add ``isprintable()`` method to the string type. ``str.isprintable()``
| return True if ``repr()`` should escape the characters in the string,
| False otherwise.
Is not this backwards? Isprintable to me mean should *not* escape.
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> The nice thing about hex-escaped characters is that I can look up the
> character code to find out what the character is. Hard to do that
> with a glyph that I don't recognize.
Not that difficult. Suppose I have the character Ә, I just do
py> unicodedata.name(u"Ә")
'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCH
> Atsuo Ishimoto writes:
>
> > Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect
> > glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign
> > characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped
> > ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, p
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:18:14PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:53:08PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:
> > if I want pretty, I'll use print (or pprint).
>
>str(container_of_strings) uses repr(), so you loose prettiness on either
> print or '%s' % container_of_strings. Ex
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:53:08PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:
> if I want pretty, I'll use print (or pprint).
str(container_of_strings) uses repr(), so you loose prettiness on either
print or '%s' % container_of_strings. Exceptions use repr() for file names,
e.g., which is very inconvenient, IMHO
On 5/24/08, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Atsuo Ishimoto writes:
> > Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect
> > glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign
> > characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer he
I updated a PEP 3138 - String representation in Python 3000.
Python wiki is also updated. (http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3kStringRepr)
I would appreciate your comments and help.
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PEP: 3138
Title: String representation in Python 3000
Version: $R
Atsuo Ishimoto writes:
> Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect
> glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign
> characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped
> ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, perhaps this
Terry Reedy wrote:
"Atsuo Ishimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect
| glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign
| characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer
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