On Jun 5, 2007, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> sage: maxima('%s' % (repr(x^2+1),))
>>> x^2+1
>>> sage: maxima('%s' % (x^2+1,))
>>> .... This hangs because of the \t
>>>
>>> From my background, you would expect the canonical string
>>> conversion to
>>> naturally work. I use the % operator on strings a great deal so
>>> I want
>>> str(object) to nicely to embed strings, but clearly the author of
>>> __str__
>>> doesn't use it so much -- maybe I'm unique in this.
>
> use %r to get the repr, %s gets the pretty string.
>
> sage: maxima('%r' % (x^2+1,))
> x^2+1
I have found the multi-line notion of str() odd too for this reason.
I did not know about the "%r" command though (as it looks like few
others did)
$ grep -r "%s" sage | wc -l
6576
$ grep -r "%s" sage | grep -v repr | wc -l
6507
$ grep -r "%r" sage | wc -l
73
Perhaps this should be changed to be more inline with python standards.
- Robert
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