String adding.

[Jon Ribbens]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > BTW `x` is the same as repr(x)
> 
> Exactly because of this, I would suggest
>     "<%s>" % whatever
> as a preferable solution to
>     '<' + `whatever` + '>'

Yes, this is one of the things that confuses me in Python. I can't see
repr ever being used in real programs. Why is there a syntactic shortcut
for it? Surely 'str' is almost always what you actually want?

Cheers


Jon