You are all correct. :-) The way I think of it is that str() is used by print; repr() is used by the interactive prompt. Clearly you want print 'abc' to print abc without quotes; but in the interactive prompt you want different output for the number 1 and the string '1', and that's what repr() is for.
FWIW, for types that implement them the same, I'd like to see them return something from which the type is obvious, i.e. repr()-like. Just yesterday I helped someone debug an AttributeError where he was convinced that an object was a string because its repr() looked like a string; but it was a dbapi DateTime object (don't recall which implementation). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
