On 6 Apr 2006, at 7:02, John J Lee wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > [...] >> 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. > [...] > > Is this old chestnut really still around? repr() is for debugging; it > does not have to return an eval()-able string. The __repr__ docs > explain > that well.
Yes, I find this to be one of the advantages python has over java: In python, coercion to string (str) is separate from providing a description for debugging (repr). Until your email, I was starting to think I was unusual in this interpretation. robey _______________________________________________ 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
