A variant I've often wanted is to make str() return the "clean" type only (e.g. 'int') while leaving repr() alone -- this would address most problems Steven brought up.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com wrote:
This idea is already casually mentioned, but sank deep into the threads of the discussion. Raise it up.
Currently reprs of classes and functions look as:
int
<class 'int'> int.from_bytes
<built-in method from_bytes of type object at 0x826cf60> open
<built-in function open> import collections collections.Counter
<class 'collections.Counter'> collections.Counter.fromkeys
<bound method Counter.fromkeys of <class 'collections.Counter'>> collections.namedtuple
<function namedtuple at 0xb6fc4adc>
What if change default reprs of classes and functions to just full qualified name __module__ + '.' + __qualname__ (or just __qualname__ if __module__ is builtins)? This will look more neatly. And such reprs are evaluable.
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