[Python-3000] Types and classes

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> what do people think of making the str() of a class
> return just the thing between '...' in the repr()?

Are you talking about the class itself, or instances
of the class?

If the latter, I'm not sure I like that idea. Very
often I write thing like 'print "foo =", foo' as
debugging statements, relying on the fact that
str(foo) will give me a repr, since it doesn't have
a __str__ of its own.

If that changes, I'll have to print repr(foo) or
"%r" % foo a lot more often instead, which would
be tedious.

-- 
Greg