In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Johny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where and when is good/nescessary to use `repr` instead of `str` ? > Can you please explain the differences You expect repr to include information that you might call `meta-data' or `type' -- object class and so forth. To the extent that this is of any interest, it's more or less equally of interest with all objects. If you go to the trouble to support str separately, it's a data conversion and of course should render only the data. An application should be able to use str() to force data to string type (that's what I mean by conversion.) If the object can't sensibly be converted to string type, then normally __str__ is omitted, and defaults to __repr__. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
