Jim Jewett wrote:
Again, what is the advantage of having str(x) be redundant to repr(x) in the case of containers?
I think you're misrepresenting the situation when you describe it that way. Guido didn't sit down and think "I know, let's make str(lst) do the same as repr(lst)." He thought "It's not clear what str(lst) should do, so let's not define it at all." There can't be a bug in list.__str__, because list.__str__ *does not exist*. If you want one, you have to decide what you want it to do and write it yourself. I've never found this to be a problem. Either repr(lst) is good enough, or I've wanted something completely different and had to write my own code for it anyway. I've *never* wanted anything that was just like repr(lst) except that it didn't quote the strings. That would only be confusing. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
