Matthew Wilson wrote: > I understand that idea of an object's __repr__ method is to return a > string representation that can then be eval()'d back to life, but it > seems to me that it doesn't always work. > > For example it doesn't work for instances of the object class: > > In [478]: eval(repr(object())) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > File "<string>", line 1 > <object object at 0xf233e8> > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > It seems to work for types like integers and dictionaries and lists, > but not for much else. > That's intentional. Would you have it return the code of all the methods when you take the repr() of a class?
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