[Python-3000] Recursive str

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 12 05:14:32 CEST 2008


Thomas Wouters wrote:
> I don't see the value in str(['1', 1, '1, [1]', '1]', 
> '\n[1']) giving hard to understand output.

Random data point: Being forced to do some Ruby programming
recently, I found that Ruby does in fact produce just this
sort of ambiguous output when you print a list, and it's
very annoying!

I'm very happy that Python doesn't do this.

-- 
Greg


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