From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 19:09:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: repr(b"\0") should return b"\x00", not the (unusual) b"\0".
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a1~994
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57b93ad56d570c27bd3de3820b996352121c18e2;p=python

repr(b"\0") should return b"\x00", not the (unusual) b"\0".
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index 102eb46528..ded049100e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -73,8 +73,9 @@ class BytesTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_repr(self):
         self.assertEqual(repr(bytes()), "b''")
-        self.assertEqual(repr(bytes([0])), "b'\\0'")
-        self.assertEqual(repr(bytes([0, 1, 254, 255])), "b'\\0\\x01\\xfe\\xff'")
+        self.assertEqual(repr(bytes([0])), "b'\\x00'")
+        self.assertEqual(repr(bytes([0, 1, 254, 255])),
+                         "b'\\x00\\x01\\xfe\\xff'")
         self.assertEqual(repr(bytes('abc')), "b'abc'")
         self.assertEqual(repr(bytes("'")), "b'\\''")
 
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index cb830e3cdb..3a707ac765 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ bytes_repr(PyBytesObject *self)
             else if (c == '\r')
                 *p++ = '\\', *p++ = 'r';
             else if (c == 0)
-                *p++ = '\\', *p++ = '0';
+                *p++ = '\\', *p++ = 'x', *p++ = '0', *p++ = '0';
             else if (c < ' ' || c >= 0x7f) {
                 /* For performance, we don't want to call
                    PyOS_snprintf here (extra layers of