On 06/04/06 Michael Chermside said: > repr() and str() are both concerned with turning an object into a > string that vaguely describes it. (Turning it into a string that
I thought that the distinction was as follows. str() should return a human-readable representation of something. repr() should return a machine-readable representation of something, suitable for an exec command. That still has value, no? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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