On Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:24:36 PM UTC-4, J Peyret wrote: > > I suspect that object.__str__ is really object.__repr__ by default, as > they both print out the same string, so that this doesn't make any > sense.
They're not the same object, and they don't have all of the same methods. In [1]: object.__repr__ is object.__str__ Out[1]: False In [2]: object.__repr__.__name__ Out[2]: '__repr__' In [3]: object.__str__.__name__ Out[3]: '__str__' In [4]: object.__repr__.__hash__() Out[4]: 28910896 In [5]: object.__str__.__hash__() Out[5]: 28910976 In [6]: object.__repr__.__call__(100) Out[6]: '<int object at 0x01BE5234>' In [7]: object.__str__.__call__(100) Out[7]: '100' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
