William Chang wrote: > Is the different behavior between __repr__ and __str__ intentional > when it comes to printing lists? Basically I want to print out a list > with elements of my own class, but when I overwrite __str__, __str__ > doesn't get called but if I overwrite __repr__, __repr__ will get > called. Is this a bug?
No, it's deliberate design. The string representation of a list object, either list.__str__() or list.__repr__(), uses the __repr__() of its contained objects. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
