[Tutor] Concatenation

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Aug 20 17:45:37 EDT 2022


On 20/08/2022 01:09, dn wrote:
> On 20/08/2022 10.40, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:

> Yet __repr__() is there! Many other standard type-conversions are
..

> Wonder why, when Python 3 (-ish) took strings from ASCII-bytes to UTF-8,
> no string equivalents were (formally) added?

Isn't it the case that str() calls __strt__() if it exists and
if not it calls __repr__()?

Thus, where only a simple representation is needed, implementing
__repr__() alone is probably adequate.

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