"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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. _______________________________________________ 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