Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
repr() is supposed to round-trip with eval() for common types.
str() is the function that round-trips with the original type:
>>> x = 5
>>> x == int(str(x))
True
>>> x = "Test Text"
>>> x == str(str(x))# :-)
True
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nosy:
New submission from Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
With 2.5.2 and 30b1 strings don't round trip like numbers do.
I guess it has been like this a long time so isn't a bug, but it does
seem inconsistent.
Both 2.5.2 and 30b1:
>>> x = 5
>>> x == int(repr(x))
True
>>> x = "Test Text"
>>> x =
