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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed May 28 01:17:36 CEST 2008

Jim Jewett wrote:

So I suggest that he or she use str, rather than repr -- and that we fix containers to make this possible.

And hope that every other author of a Python container class on the planet does the same thing?

Recursing downwards with str() instead of repr() will break as soon as it encounters a container class which either doesn't resurce with str() or doesn't propagate a new "this is really str()" flag (depending on how Oleg's PEP suggests implementing this).

PEP 3138 fixes the problem without relying on third parties to do anything.

Cheers, Nick.

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