[Python-3000] Types and classes (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Apr 7 02:34:02 CEST 2008


"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message news:ca471dc20804031118l30eae131i1487e46c19e55b56 at mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:58 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> All I really mean to fix is to standardize the terminology, especially > in repr().

So you don't want to be called a wimp anymore ?-)

Indeed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------ r23331 | gvanrossum | 2001-09-25 05:56:29 +0200 (Di, 25 Sep 2001) | 5 lines

Change repr() of a new-style class to say <class 'ClassName'> rather than <type 'ClassName'>. Exception: if it's a built-in type or an extension type, continue to call it <type 'ClassName>. Call me a wimp, but I don't want to break more user code than necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, if we're going to break user code, 3.0 is the time to do it. :-)

Could not find this in tracker, so http://bugs.python.org/issue2565



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