Thanks for the thorough explanation Steven!
On Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:02:02 UTC+2, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
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> On Sunday, June 29, 2014 7:24:35 AM UTC-4, Michael Hatherly wrote:
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>> This might not be the best way to do it, but the following has worked for
>> me in the past.
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>> The output to the REPL is produced using display() (I think), so you can
>> use the following to get the same kind of output as a string:
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> The display is just using writemime(io, "text/plain", x). So, you can
> just use
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> stringmime("text/plain", x)
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> to get a string representation identical to the REPL output.
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> But it depends on what you want: there are a lot of print/string variants
> that print things in slightly different ways. For example, you can use
> repr(x) to get unabbreviated output -- the difference will arise for things
> like large matrices: if you want the abbreviated output as in the REPL, use
> stringmime, whereas if you want the full output you can use repr. For
> scalars etc. the output will be identical. Or you can use print(x) or
> string(x), which will differ e.g. for strings (when you print "foo", do you
> want to print the quotation marks or not?).
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