I ran into an issue today with `str()` not behaving as I thought it should. Given the following test script, what should happen? -- 8< ------------------------------ class Blah(object): def __str__(self): return 'blah' class Huh(int, Blah): pass class Hah(Blah, int): pass huh = Huh(7) hah = Hah(13) print(huh) print(hah) -- 8< ------------------------------ I thought I would get: 7 blah and indeed, that is what I got for Pythons 2.7 - 3.7. However, starting with Python 3.8 I started getting: blah blah To say the least, I was surprised. Some searching turned up issue 36793: "Do not define unneeded __str__ equal to __repr__" . As can be seen, `__str__` is needed for inheritance to work properly. Thoughts on reverting that patch? -- ~Ethan~