Issue 3198: strings don't seem to roundtrip with repr() (original) (raw)

Issue3198

Created on 2008-06-25 13:33 by mark, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg68728 - (view)	Author: Mark Summerfield (mark) *	Date: 2008-06-25 13:33
With 2.5.2 and 30b1 strings don't round trip like numbers do. I guess it has been like this a long time so isn't a bug, but it does seem inconsistent. Both 2.5.2 and 30b1: >>> x = 5 >>> x == int(repr(x)) True >>> x = "Test Text" >>> x == str(repr(x)) False The reason is that an extra set of enclosing quotes are added.
msg68729 - (view)	Author: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (amaury.forgeotdarc) *	Date: 2008-06-25 13:51
repr() is supposed to round-trip with eval() for common types. str() is the function that round-trips with the original type: >>> x = 5 >>> x == int(str(x)) True >>> x = "Test Text" >>> x == str(str(x)) # :-) True