str vs repr Re: Rounding Bug in Python 2.0! - ugh

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:27:07PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> [ The str()-versus-repr() issue in the Python REPL ]
> 
> > Given the number of posts about this, including ones from
> > experienced people, this might perhaps help.  How does
> > one open a PEP about it...?
> 
> You open a PEP by writing one ;) Once you have a draft, you mail it to
> Barry, who will give it a number, or maybe reject it. The idea to have
> user-definable functions to do the P in 'REPL' was brought up before, on
> python-dev, but I don't recall what came of it. (That, in itself, suggests a
> PEP would be useful :-)

There's a PEP (208) for it, which I was too lazy to write up in full.
RSN (hopefully by next Sunday)

everyone-is-lagged-behind-on-their-peps-thomas-ly y'rs, Z.
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