> I wish you had an argument better than "every bright beginner assumes > it exists". :-) > > But (unlike for some other things that bright beginners might assume) > I don't think there's a deep reason why this couldn't exist. > > The only reasons I can come up with is "because input and output are > notoriously asymmetric in Python" and "because nobody submitted a > patch". :-)
My reason is that I've rolled-my-own more times than I can count but infrequently enough to where it was easier to re-write than to search for the previous use. Another quick thought: I presume that only the str() builtin would change and that the underlying __str__ slot would continue to be hard-wired to the (reprfunc) signature. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
