[Python-3000] Types and classes

[Terry Reedy]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message 
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:58 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> 
wrote:
> > All I really mean to fix is to standardize the terminology, especially
>  > in repr().
>
>  So you don't want to be called a wimp anymore ?-)

Indeed.

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>  r23331 | gvanrossum | 2001-09-25 05:56:29 +0200 (Di, 25 Sep 2001) | 5 
> lines
>
>  Change repr() of a new-style class to say <class 'ClassName'> rather
>  than <type 'ClassName'>.  Exception: if it's a built-in type or an
>  extension type, continue to call it <type 'ClassName>.  Call me a
>  wimp, but I don't want to break more user code than necessary.
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, if we're going to break user code, 3.0 is the time to do it. :-)
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Could not find this in tracker, so http://bugs.python.org/issue2565