#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.
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 @@
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