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make float.__str__ identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2

[Python-Dev] Proposal: make float.__str__ identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2 [Python-Dev] Proposal: make float.__str__ identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 02:34:20 CEST 2010 
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
..
> It also really calls into question whether there are good
> reasons for other types to have a __str__ that is different
> than their __repr__.

For strings, the distinction is very useful.  In this and many other
cases unifying str and repr would mean making a choice between
readability and parseability.
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