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<div dir="ltr">Another disadvantage of calling str recursively rather than repr is that it places an onus on anyone writing a class to write both a repr and a str method (or be inconsistent with the newly-accepted standard for container types).<br>
<br>I personally write a repr method for most classes, which aids debugging. This means all my classes behave like containers currently do - their str will call repr on the items. This proposal will make all of my classes behave inconsistently with the standard container types.<br>
<br>- Matt Giuca<br></div>
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