#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/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 73a95a6..35ba781 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -265,6 +265,20 @@
\n\
Return True if bool(x) is True for any x in the iterable.");
+static PyObject *
+builtin_ascii(PyObject *self, PyObject *v)
+{
+ return PyObject_ASCII(v);
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(ascii_doc,
+"ascii(object) -> string\n\
+\n\
+As repr(), return a string containing a printable representation of an\n\
+object, but escape the non-ASCII characters in the string returned by\n\
+repr() using \\x, \\u or \\U escapes. This generates a string similar\n\
+to that returned by repr() in Python 2.");
+
static PyObject *
builtin_bin(PyObject *self, PyObject *v)
@@ -2188,6 +2202,7 @@
{"abs", builtin_abs, METH_O, abs_doc},
{"all", builtin_all, METH_O, all_doc},
{"any", builtin_any, METH_O, any_doc},
+ {"ascii", builtin_ascii, METH_O, ascii_doc},
{"bin", builtin_bin, METH_O, bin_doc},
{"chr", builtin_chr, METH_VARARGS, chr_doc},
{"cmp", builtin_cmp, METH_VARARGS, cmp_doc},