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.
Just to reinforce something Skip mentioned: If you're looking for a way to serialize an object into a string, and then later turn that string back into an object, you probably want the pickle module (the marshal module is similar but is really intended for internal use; unless you know exactly why you're picking one over the other, using pickle is probably the right call). http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pickle.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
