Dec. 31, 2002
9:26 a.m.
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
I don't like classes whose str() or repr() can be many lines in a typical case. Since this is read from a file, there should be (and is) a method to write it to a file; if there's no use case for converting the whole shebang to a string, don't provide that, and especially not as str() or repr().
Noted for the futuee, thanks. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>