>> What was the bug?
>
> If the stringifier saw two instances of the same object, it'd think that
> recursion was going on. Unfortunately, since the numbers between 1-100
> are typically interned (as well as strings), it'd also think that if I
> visited "0" twice,that I was in a recursive loop too.
The test cases from the bottom of:
http://hashcollision.org/svn/repos/projects/misc/deepstr/deepstr.py
especially testRepeatedObjects() and testNonRecursion(), failed with the
older code. The way I'm doing it now is much better, even though it's
still very subtle.
I like the code though, just because it isolates the hard part about
writing a function like this. Once we have DeepStr, the implementation of
the deep_str function is simple. Of course, all of this is already
implemented deep in the bowels of Python already, but I wanted to make
something extensible.
Anyway, thanks again for the feedback; I'm considering this a done project
for now. *grin*
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