__str__ vs. __repr__

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> David Ascher suggested that str(long) drop the trailing "L", and that's a
> good example.  The "L" is appropriate for repr(), for so long as Python
> maintains such a sharp distinction between ints and longs, but is really of
> no help to most users most of the time.

If you should really plan to do this, please add a new PyLong_AsString()
API, so that extensions can query the long int value using the
string format (probably the most portable way of passing long int
values from one implementation to another). A PyLong_FromString() API
would be a nice complement to PyLong_AsString()... it could use the
code from the builtin long() as engine.

I'm currently using PyObject_Str() on Python long integers to
have converted to strings and chop off the trailing 'L' "by hand".
Not really very elegant, but it works :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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