[Tutor] a print puzzle

[bob gailer]

On 12/2/2010 2:09 PM, Richard D. Moores wrote:

[snip]
>
> I found nothing that helped as much as you have already.
>
In the reference (for 2.6.2) under print statement I find:

"print evaluates each expression in turn and writes the resulting object 
to standard output (see below). If an object is not a string, it is 
first converted to a string using the rules for string conversions.

This leaves the reader pondering "rules for string conversions". I 
wonder whether this is defined and why it was not cross-referenced here.

In the reference (for 3.1.3) under print function I find:

"All non-keyword arguments are converted to strings like str() does"

Under str() I find:

"returns its nicely printable representation."

OK but still kinda vague.

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Bob Gailer
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