Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
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+- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
+  escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
+
 - Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
   non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
   binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the