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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-11 18:37:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-11 18:37:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 559e5d7f4d1155e95fb6f925c927a263f9196935 (patch) | |
| tree | 4688423e81e9ffed7a5b2c87c50b55419e8e885a /Doc/library/functions.rst | |
| parent | ea6d58d9d3033436b52e84960b9571525a4f5412 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 875eea0..a420974 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -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 |