[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Make LDAP entry output slightly nicer, don't print u's in front of unicode strings etc.

[Pavel Zuna]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Pavel Zuna wrote:
>> Minor change to the way textui.print_entry works. The old version was 
>> printing the python representation of values, which looks weird for 
>> users not familiar with python, especially with unicode strings having 
>> the letter 'u' prepended to them. I think it's a bit nicer this way 
>> and no value is lost.
>>
>> Pavel
>>
> 
> Partial ack.
> 
> This is a good addition but at least the env plugin should continue 
> using repr.
> 
> We really need both capabilities. How about adding either a second 
> function (or perhaps a flag) to do the repr() version and change the env 
> plugin to use that.
> 
> Can you resubmit with these changes?
> 
> rob
The env plugin uses textui.print_keyval that uses repr(), although not explicitly.

print '%s = %r' % (key, value)  # same as: print '%s = %s' % (key, repr(value))

Pavel