notebook -- issue with quotes

[williamstein]

Using notebook mode.

Problem:
cell input: '\''
output: '\\u0027'
expected output: '\u0027'

Sincerely,
Mats

Component: notebook

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/3692

[williamstein]

comment:1

Tom Boothby:

Either this is a python bug, "user error", or a feature request.  I don't think this is a problem with the notebook.

boothby@eight:~$ sage -python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Nov  9 2007, 07:54:29)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = '\u0027'
>>> x
'\\u0027'
>>>

The default behavior is to call repr on the return value of the last line (if not None), yes?  If so, this is consistent.  If not, what?  Should we call print instead of repr? (then, I believe it's a feature request)