eval(repr(object)) hardly ever works

[Matthew Wilson]

I understand that idea of an object's __repr__ method is to return a
string representation that can then be eval()'d back to life, but it
seems to me that it doesn't always work. 

For example it doesn't work for instances of the object class:

In [478]: eval(repr(object()))
------------------------------------------------------------
   File "<string>", line 1
     <object object at 0xf233e8>
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It seems to work for types like integers and dictionaries and lists,
but not for much else.

Any thoughts?


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