On Friday, October 10, 2014 7:54:33 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > More telling comments from Alex (same SO post) > 1. Both have mostly useless default implementations > 2. if you override __repr__, that's ALSO used for __str__, but not vice versa > 3. despite the words on the subject found in typical docs, hardly > anybody bothers making the __repr__ of objects be a string that > eval may use to build an equal object (it's just too hard, AND not > knowing how the relevant module was actually imported makes it > actually flat out impossible).
> If you dont find all this confusing, I am reminded of Schrödinger (or > one of his ilk): > If you dont find Quantum physics confusing you've not begun to understand it Ok: Not Schrödinger but John Wheeler: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys3220/phys3220_fa08/quotes.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
