On 28 Mai, 17:40, Ronan Lamy <ronan.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't care about that, because we don't put stuff inside containers
> that often, because I usually want the repr when I look at .args, and
> because the only shell I really care about is ipython, which prints this
> nicely in any case.

I care about pure python shells. However, I could live with it if
there was a trivial way to setup printing as in isympy (calling
init_printing() probably already does this).

> What matters is that:
> * we can't change it
> * people new to sympy who know Python expect it
> * there is a lot of code outside sympy that takes this behaviour for
> granted and works with/around it.

On the other hand, eval(repr(x)) == x does not hold in general, see
for example lambda, functions, numpy arrays etc.

Vinzent

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