On 10/11/2013 9:31 AM, Stephen Tucker wrote:
to be able to by itself. The distinction between the "geekiness" of a tuple compared with the "non-geekiness" of a string is, itself, far too geeky for my liking. The distinction seems to be an utterly spurious - even artificial or arbitrary one to me. (Sorry about the rant.)
There is a better reason for collections using repr for their items, but I forget the details.
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