TST: MultiIndex repr should properly encode unicode labels

Author: y-p

pandas/tests/test_index.py

@@ -1675,6 +1675,10 @@ def test_tolist(self):
         exp = list(self.index.values)
         self.assertEqual(result, exp)
 
+    def test_repr_with_unicode_data(self):
+        d={"a":[u"\u05d0",2,3],"b":[4,5,6],"c":[7,8,9]}
+        index=pd.DataFrame(d).set_index(["a","b"]).index
+        self.assertFalse("\\u" in repr(index)) # we don't want unicode-escaped
 
 def test_get_combined_index():
     from pandas.core.index import _get_combined_index