str(list) calls repr() on elements?

[Ulf Engström]

OKi, I'm not familiar with the interior of repr and str, but I believe none
of the functions are called for each element of a list or a tuple, but
rather stringifying the whole list.
'[the,elements,will,just,be,part,of,the,string]'
Am I wrong here?
Ulf

> It seems that the built-in function 'str', when applied to a list/tuple,
> constructs its result by calling 'repr' on the elements of the list/tuple,
> rather than 'str'. How come?
>
> e.g.
> >> str(1L)
> '1'
> >> repr(1L)
> '1L'
> >> str( [1L] )
> '[1L]'  # not '[1]'
>
> -Michael Dyck
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