"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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| There's another reason it bothers me. If a string like
| "<type 'foo'>" turns up in otherwise normal output, it's
| a fairly clear indication that I've somehow ended up
| printing something that was never meant to be printed.

Which to me is precisely why str(<class>) should *not* look like an 
accident when intentionally printed in normal output -- as in my example or 
in Guido's.




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