Sebastian Haase wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ondrej> i.e. the str on list (and tuple and dict) calls repr() on the
Ondrej> elements, instead of str. This really seems to me like a bug.
Ondrej> Because if I wanted the repr() representation, I'd call repr()
Ondrej> on the list/tuple/dict. If I want a nice readable
Ondrej> representation, I call str(). That's the philosophy, no?
I think this is the case which calls for the distinction:
>>> str(["1", "2", "3"])
"['1', '2', '3']"
>>> str([1, 2, 3])
'[1, 2, 3]'
If the first case did as you suggested you couldn't distinguish it from the
second.
Look at this -- it seems to me that it should work fine....
---- Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26)
str("qwer")
'qwer'
repr("qwer")
"'qwer'"
No it doesn't. What's happening in these examples is that the
interpreter is calling repr() on the expression result - otherwise you
wouldn't see the quotes:
>>> str("qwer")
'qwer'
>>> print str("qwer")
qwer
>>>
regards
Steve
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