Print LIST of unicode chars without escape characters

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When you print a string, you get the output of the __str__ method of the object – in this case the string without quotes. The __str__ method of a list is different, it creates a string containing the opening and closing [] and the string produced by the __repr__ method of each object contained within. What you’re seeing is the difference between __str__ and __repr__.

You can build your own string instead:

print '[' + ','.join("'" + str(x) + "'" for x in s) + ']'

This version should work on both Unicode and byte strings in Python 2:

print u'[' + u','.join(u"'" + unicode(x) + u"'" for x in s) + u']'

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