[Python-3000] Types and classes

[Facundo Batista]

2008/4/8, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> That's true, but it's sufficiently unlikely that a string
>  such as "<type 'foo'>" could have accidentally arisen some
>  other way that I don't lose any sleep over it. If weird
>  things seem to be happening in some particular case, I'll
>  put a repr() in to find out exactly what's going on. Most
>  of the time it's not needed, though.
>
>  There's another reason it bothers me. If a string like
>  "<type 'foo'>" turns up in otherwise normal output, it's
>  a fairly clear indication that I've somehow ended up
>  printing something that was never meant to be printed.
>  Whereas if it just comes out as "foo", it could easily
>  go unnoticed.

I'm with Greg here, but I'll put it in another way: I don't want
repr() to be nice, I want it to be as explicit as possible. I want to
be able to trust repr(), and never doubt of what it's showing to me.

Regards,

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