py3: let the repr of numbers be a string

[fchapoton]

and not forced to be "bytes"

replaced by #24223

CC: @embray @jdemeyer

Component: python3

Keywords: unicode

Author: Frédéric Chapoton

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23812

[fchapoton]

Commit: f34394d

[fchapoton]

Branch: u/chapoton/23812

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from f34394d to f093217

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

f093217

py3: str repr for integers

[jdemeyer]

comment:3

I wonder if we should have a general function to convert from bytes to str and back in Sage. For example, like in cypari2: https://github.com/defeo/cypari2/blob/master/cypari2/string_utils.pyx

[fchapoton]

comment:4

It seems that we also need to change the repr of rational numbers..

[fchapoton]

comment:5

ping ?

[jdemeyer]

comment:6

As I said, I think we should have a general solution instead of this.