printing list, is this a bug?

[Dan Bishop]

On May 25, 3:55 pm, William Chang <mr.williamch... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the different behavior between __repr__ and __str__ intentional
> when it comes to printing lists? Basically I want to print out a list
> with elements of my own class, but when I overwrite __str__, __str__
> doesn't get called but if I overwrite __repr__, __repr__ will get
> called. Is this a bug?
> ...

As has been mentioned, this was a deliberate design decision.  Partly
to make things like str(['a', 'b, c']) less confusing.