printing list, is this a bug?

[Robert Kern]

William Chang wrote:
> Is the different behavior between __repr__ and __str__ intentional
> when it comes to printing lists? Basically I want to print out a list
> with elements of my own class, but when I overwrite __str__, __str__
> doesn't get called but if I overwrite __repr__, __repr__ will get
> called. Is this a bug?

No, it's deliberate design. The string representation of a list object, either
list.__str__() or list.__repr__(), uses the __repr__() of its contained objects.

-- 
Robert Kern

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