eval(repr(object)) hardly ever works

[Matthew Wilson]

On Wed 13 Sep 2006 10:38:03 AM EDT, Steve Holden wrote:
> That's intentional. Would you have it return the code of all the methods 
> when you take the repr() of a class?

I don't think that would be required.  Couldn't you return a string with
a call to the constructor inside?  That's what sets.Set seems to do:

In [510]: from sets import Set

In [511]: s = Set()

In [512]: s.add('baloney')

In [513]: repr(s)
Out[513]: "Set(['baloney'])"

In [514]: eval(repr(s))
Out[514]: Set(['baloney'])

> regards
>   Steve

PS: I read your python web programming book a few years ago.



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