[Python-Dev] Changes in semantics to str()?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> I guess Thomas has settled the fate of my str() patch -- UserString
> won't be dealt with properly.  I hereby withdraw the patch.
> 
> (I'm not sure what Marc-Andre means by buffer objects whose str() is
> long but whose repr() is short, but it's probably a similar issue.)
>

Example for the record:

>>> b = buffer('long string')
>>> b
<read-only buffer for 0x82a0160, ptr 0x82a0174, size 11 at 0x82db170>
>>> l = [b]
>>> l
[<read-only buffer for 0x82a0160, ptr 0x82a0174, size 11 at 0x82db170>]
>>> [str(b)]
['long string']

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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