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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:52:02 +0000
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On 15/11/2013 14:40, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
......


>> and then use repr throughout.
>
> Or rather
>
>      try:
>          ascii
>      except NameError:
>          ascii = repr
>
> and then use ascii throughout.
>
>

apparently you can import ascii from future_builtins and the print() function is 
available as

from __future__ import print_function

nothing fixes all those %r formats to be %a though :(
-- 
Robin Becker