[Python-3000] Types and classes

[Terry Reedy]

"Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message 
news:47FBF7F9.4020608 at canterbury.ac.nz...
| There's another reason it bothers me. If a string like
| "<type 'foo'>" turns up in otherwise normal output, it's
| a fairly clear indication that I've somehow ended up
| printing something that was never meant to be printed.

Which to me is precisely why str(<class>) should *not* look like an 
accident when intentionally printed in normal output -- as in my example or 
in Guido's.