New submission from John Morton <j...@angrymonkey.net.nz>: The output of repr on an object of type time.struct_time has changed from 2.5 to 2.6, and can no longer be read in with an eval.
2.5 behaviour: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr 4 2009, 17:55:16) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import time >>> t1 = time.gmtime() >>> t1_repr = repr(t1) >>> t1_repr '(2009, 5, 2, 16, 16, 43, 5, 122, 0)' >>> t2 = eval(t1_repr) >>> t1 == t2 True Meanwhile in 2.6: Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import time >>> t1 = time.gmtime() >>> t1_repr = repr(t1) >>> t1_repr 'time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=5, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=16, tm_min=20, tm_sec=54, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=122, tm_isdst=0)' >>> t2 = eval(t1_repr) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: structseq() takes at most 2 arguments (9 given) Obviously returning a time.time_struct based representation is the right thing to do, but the repr of this flavour should eval. ---------- components: Extension Modules, Tests messages: 86958 nosy: jwm severity: normal status: open title: repr of time.struct_time type does not eval type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5907> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
