micropython/micropython — pull request #689 by pfalcon (2014-06-13 18:29:53+00:00)
Title: objstr: Be 8-bit clean even for repr().

This will allow roughly the same behavior as Python3 for non-ASCII strings,
for example, print("".split()) will print list
of words, not weird hex dump (like Python2 behaves). (Of course, that it
will print list of words, if there're "words" in that phrase at all, separated
by ASCII-compatible whitespace; that surely won't apply to every human
language in existence).