eval(repr(x)) == x

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 04:26:26 -0500, Oren Tirosh <oren-py-l at hishome.net> wrote:
>For many python builtins eval(repr(x)) == x.

I once designed a language whose main feature was that this
was true for all x. 

As a consequence, all data was trivially serializable.

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