6.5.0: Get rid of python 2.7 traces

No manual magic with pseudo-repr for strings anymore

5.8.0: Get rid of python 2.7 traces

No manual magic with pseudo-repr for strings anymore

(cherry picked from commit 7a9b73144554d42479232894dee89a98eb53715d)

5.7.0

Cleanup not needed build targets

6.4.0

Move forward: better typing, remove py<36 traces

6.3.11: github actions: also run python 3.8

slow prepration to move on github actions from other CI systems

6.3.10

optimize string escaping

6.3.9

better type annotations

Escape special characters in string

6.3.8

extra escape: `\\` and `\a`

6.3.7

Python 3.8 support fixes

6.3.6

Code unification