Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jan 16 03:15:35 CET 2014

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:46:07PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 1/15/2014 4:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >What precisely does it do? If it's so obvious, why is this thread so
> >long?
> 
> It produces a formatted representation of the object in bytes.  For 
> numbers, that would probably be expected to be ASCII digits and punctuation.
> 
> But other items are not as obvious.

My point exactly.


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Steven

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