[Jim F]
In November there was an interesting discussion on comp.lang.python about the meaning of __str__ and __repr__. One tidbit that came out of this discussion was that __str__ for longs should drop the trailing 'L'. Was there a decision on this? I'd really like this to happen.
Yes, I'd like it to happen. I'd also like repr() of a float to return the full precision (using the "%.17g" sprintf format). I haven't done it for lack of time -- feel free to send a patch (don't forget the disclaimer from http://www.python.org/1.5/bugrelease.html). We haven't decided yet what to do with the greater topic of that discussion (or was it a different one?) -- whether the values printed by typing a bare expression in interactive mode should use str(), repr(), or str-special-casing-the-snot-out-of-strings(). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)