str behaviour

[Igor V. Rafienko]

Hi,


I was playing around with printing tuples, when I noticed how str
behaves with "compound" types (such as tuples):


>>> class A:
...     def __str__( self ):
...         return "I'm A"
... 
>>> a = A()
>>> t = ( A, a )
>>> str( t )
'(<class __main__.A at 80fd498>, <__main__.A instance at 810f090>)'
>>> str( a )
"I'm A"
>>> 


I expected str to be called recursively for the constituent types.
But, alas, that did not happen. Am I misunderstanding something or is
it the intended behaviour? If the latter is the case, could someone
elaborate on why this behaviour was chosen?

TIA,





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