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#2630: Implement PEP 3138.

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The repr() of a string now contains printable Unicode characters unescaped.
The new ascii() builtin can be used to get a repr() with only ASCII characters in it.

PEP and patch were written by Atsuo Ishimoto.
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Georg Brandl 2008-06-11 18:37:52 +00:00
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@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
return False
.. function:: ascii(object)
As :func:`repr`, return a string containing a printable representation of an
object, but escape the non-ASCII characters in the string returned by
:func:`repr` using ``\x``, ``\u`` or ``\U`` escapes. This generates a string
similar to that returned by :func:`repr` in Python 2.
.. function:: bin(x)
Convert an integer number to a binary string. The result is a valid Python