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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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@@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior.
``encodingname:errorhandler``. The ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and
has the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`.
+ For stderr, the ``:errorhandler`` part is ignored; the handler will always be
+ ``'backslashreplace'``.
+
.. envvar:: PYTHONNOUSERSITE