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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-06-11 18:37:52 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-06-11 18:37:52 (GMT)
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#2630: Implement PEP 3138.
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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@@ -116,8 +116,18 @@ Object Protocol
Compute a string representation of object *o*. Returns the string
representation on success, *NULL* on failure. This is the equivalent of the
- Python expression ``repr(o)``. Called by the :func:`repr` built-in function and
- by reverse quotes.
+ Python expression ``repr(o)``. Called by the :func:`repr` built-in function.
+
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_ASCII(PyObject *o)
+
+ .. index:: builtin: ascii
+
+ As :cfunc:`PyObject_Repr`, compute a string representation of object *o*, but
+ escape the non-ASCII characters in the string returned by
+ :cfunc:`PyObject_Repr` with ``\x``, ``\u`` or ``\U`` escapes. This generates
+ a string similar to that returned by :cfunc:`PyObject_Repr` in Python 2.
+ Called by the :func:`ascii` built-in function.
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_Str(PyObject *o)