On Thursday, October 9, 2014 10:26:41 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:34:30 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>>> Color.Red > >>>> print (Color.Red) > > Color.Red > > # Not sure what to make of that distinction... > That's because the interactive interpreter displays the repr() of objects > (except for None, which it suppresses), while print outputs the str() of > them. Yeah... What I meant to wonder upon was: "Is this behavior what the pro-print or the anti-print folks like?" In any case that the P in REPL is not *exactly* the same as print (or equivalently the distinction between str and repr) makes for some intricate noob confusions. BTW is there some flag that can make them identical? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
