As suggested by Marc Tamlyn I am posting this here for discussion: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20448
tl;dr: Currently __repr__() calls __unicode__() which can be a very bad thing. You really don't want things like an exception being raised or debugger being used to cause additional side effects (like executing a database query inside __unicode__). -- Patryk Zawadzki I solve problems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
