Christian Heimes wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> What's wrong with just >> >> str(0.3) >> >> that's what "print" invokes, whereas the interpreter prompt is using >> >> repr(0.3) >> > > No, print invokes the tp_print slot of the float type. Some core types > have a special handler for print. The tp_print slot is not available > from Python code and most people don't know about it. :]
Why does print use the tp_print slot, rather than str()? Are the two effectively redundant? If (non-repr) string representations are frequently needed for a given type, could str() be implemented as a reference to tp_slot, via a C-language extension? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
