[Python-ideas] Reviving PEP 3140 - "str(container) should call str(item), not repr(item)"

[Ned Batchelder]

On 4/6/2013 8:09 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Let's update the OOP paradigm and accept we can't*totally*  get away
> from the machine and differentiate between atomic types like integers
> and let containers be the "first" Object.

Mark, so I can understand your mindset better, what do you mean by 
"let's update the OOP paradigm"?  Do you mean, 1) "let's change Python 
in the next release," or 2) "let's see if we can imagine a different way 
of doing things, even though it won't ever change the Python language in 
actuality," or 3) something in between?

This change you mention here is fundamental enough that realistically, 
#2 is the only interpretation I can see.

--Ned.
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