Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
> I sometimes wish that the str() of a class would return the class name
> rather than its repr(); that way "print(str)" would print "str"
> instead of <class 'str'>. (Use case: printing an exception and its
> message: I wish I could print("%s: %s" % (err.__class__, err)) instead
> of having to use err.__class__.__name__.)
Me too. I have a small metaclass to do that :) Given your tentative support,
I’ll open a feature request for 3.3.
> One could even claim that the repr() of a class could be the same
I think of repr first as “string form for debugging”, so I like the angle
brackets.
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stage: test needed -> committed/rejected
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