On Apr 27, 4:00 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:56 -0700, Simon Berube wrote: > > When you call certain objects __repr__() strings in python you often > > get the : <Object at Memory Address> happen. I am simply trying to > > understand how that information can be used to recreate a certain > > object that failed as per the given purpose of the __repr__() > > functions. > > It's not a requirement of repr() that the resulting string be suitable > for recreating the object. For many built-in object types, calling > eval() on their repr() will result in a copy of the object, but in > general eval(repr(obj))==obj will not be true. > > > In short, how do I used <Object at Memory Address> strings to recreate > > a an object. > > You don't. What you should do instead depends on what you actually need > to do, which you haven't said yet. Do you want to pass an object to > another function, do you want to make a copy of an object, or do you > want to serialize/unserialize an object to send it through time and/or > space? > > -Carsten
That's what we need: a CopyMemory() routine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
