Re: repr question

Bill Janssen (janssen@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 25 Jul 1994 16:50:27 PDT

Excerpts from ext.python: 25-Jul-94 Re: repr question Jaap
Vermeulen@sequent.c (1335)

> I would settle for a function
> that prints a readable description of the object (a la Smalltalk
> 'printString'), and a function that prints a recreatable description of
> the object (a la Smalltalk 'storeString').

"marshal.dump" already does this (storeString) for some things. I'd
like to see it extended so that there's a simple way to have everything
dump-able and load-able.

Bill