[Python-Dev] pydoc 1.58 - added repr_str (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
08 Mar 2002 09:42:48 +0000

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

I just checked in pydoc.py 1.58. The change of type("").name from "string" to "str" between Python 2.1 and 2.2 busted the special method lookup in pydoc.HTMLRepr and pydoc.TextRepr. This belongs in 2.2.1.

Noted.

SF seems at least mildly busted at the moment.

Yes.

Cheers, M.

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