[Python-Dev] Proposal: make float.str identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jul 30 02:12:00 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

It also really calls into question whether there are good reasons for other types to have a str that is different than their repr.

Maybe, but there is tons of 3rd party code that uses this distinction.

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