Matthew Wilson wrote: > I understand that idea of an object's __repr__ method is to return a > string representation that can then be eval()'d back to life, but it > seems to me that it doesn't always work.
when in doubt, read the language reference: "If at all possible, this should look like a valid Python expression that could be used to recreate an object with the same value (given an appropriate environment). If this is not possible, a string of the form "<...some useful description...>" should be returned. http://pyref.infogami.com/__repr__ </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list