[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue May 27 01:03:30 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:53:41PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:

On 5/24/08, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:53:08PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: > > if I want pretty, I'll use print (or pprint).

> str(containerofstrings) uses repr(), so you loose prettiness on either > print or '%s' % containerofstrings. This is not a problem with repr; it is a bug with str.

str(container) tries to call container.str (which is absent) and then container.repr. Is "str or repr" a bug?

Oleg.

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