pep 308: why doing (almost) nothing suffices

Edward K. Ream edream at tds.net
Mon Mar 10 08:25:38 EST 2003


> How about repr(s)?

I don't think so.

>>> s = 'a'
>>> repr(s)
"'a'"

>>> s = "a"
>>> repr(s)
"'a'"

While quote might be nice to have on its own, Steven Taschuck has shown that
choose_eval doesn't really work.

Edward
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