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>> Some of us have been doing this long enough to remember when "just plain
>> text" meant only a single case of the alphabet (and a subset of ascii
>> punctuation).  On an ASR-33, your C program would print like:
>>
>> MAIN() \(
>>         PRINTF("HELLO, ASCII WORLD");
>> \)
>>
>> because ASR-33's didn't have curly braces (or lower case).
>>
>> Having P3's repr() escape non-ascii characters today makes about as much
>> sense as expecting P2's repr() to escape curly braces (and vertical bars,
>> and a few others) because not every terminal can print those.
>>
> .....
> I can certainly remember those days, how we cried and laughed when 8 bits
> became popular.
>
Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits?  That's lovely (?).
;).  That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint
translations


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python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 11:28 +0000
  Re: python 3.3 repr Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-15 03:38 -0800
    Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 12:16 +0000
      Re: python 3.3 repr Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-15 05:54 -0800
        Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 14:29 +0000
        Re: python 3.3 repr Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 16:40 +0200
        Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 14:52 +0000
    Re: python 3.3 repr Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-15 09:25 -0500
    Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 14:43 +0000
      Re: python 3.3 repr Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-15 07:08 -0800
        Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 15:39 +0000
        Re: python 3.3 repr Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-11-15 16:49 +0100
        Re: python 3.3 repr Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 03:01 +1100
          Re: python 3.3 repr Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-11-15 17:47 +0000
            Re: python 3.3 repr Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-16 01:09 +0000
      Re: python 3.3 repr Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-15 17:10 +0000
        Re: python 3.3 repr Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 04:29 +1100
        Re: python 3.3 repr Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 10:45 -0700
    Re: python 3.3 repr Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 09:50 -0500
    Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 15:03 +0000
    Re: python 3.3 repr Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 10:07 -0500
    Re: python 3.3 repr Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 02:08 +1100
    Re: python 3.3 repr Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-11-15 15:18 +0000
    Re: python 3.3 repr Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-15 10:32 -0500
    Re: python 3.3 repr William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2013-11-15 11:30 -0500
    Re: python 3.3 repr Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net> - 2013-11-15 14:06 -0300
    Re: python 3.3 repr Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 04:11 +1100
    Re: python 3.3 repr Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 19:37 +0200
  Re: python 3.3 repr Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-11-15 11:36 -0500
  Re: python 3.3 repr Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-15 17:58 +0000
  Re: python 3.3 repr Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-11-15 14:23 -0500

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