str() of a tuple

[Erik Max Francis]

Douglas Zongker wrote:

> Why, oh why does the str() of a container use the repr()s of the
> objects inside?  This seems to violate what the docs claim str() does
> -- "return a nicely printable representation of an object."  Would a
> sane implementation break something?

I presume this is an historical issue; perhaps if it were planned again
from scratch maybe it would have been done differently.  It certainly
does seem to cause a fair amount of confusion.

> Is there a convenient way to print out a tuple of floats so that the
> output is actually readable?

You can do it manually yourself:

	'(%s)' % ', '.join(map(str, T))

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