[Python-Dev] str vs repr at prompt again (FW: String printing behavior?)

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:

  TP> Another unsolicited testimonial that countless users are
  TP> oppressed by auto-repr (as opposed to auto-str) at the
  TP> interpreter prompt.  Just trying to keep a once-hot topic from
  TP> going stone cold forever <wink>.

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  >> -- Ted Drain Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ted.Drain@jpl.nasa.gov --

This guy is probably a rocket scientist.  We want the language to be
useful for everybody, not just rocket scientists. <wink>

Jeremy