On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:34:23PM -0700, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 18 June 2013 19:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:41:01PM -0700, Jim Mooney wrote:
> >> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
> >> a string, but what if I want the original obj
On 18 June 2013 19:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:41:01PM -0700, Jim Mooney wrote:
>> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
>> a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
>> purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
>
> The sh
> I believe there's a general law of physics and/or informatics at work
> here...
That sounds right to me - it's some form of perpetual motion ;') And
I can see other difficulties. unstring the "5" in x = "5" and that
would work, but unstring x = "Bob" and Python thinks Bob is a
nonexistent varia
On 18 June 2013 19:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> As an alternative, if you give up the requirement that the string be
> human-readable, you can *serialise* the object. Not all objects can be
> serialised, but most can. You can use:
>
> - marshal
> - pickle
I had a feeling it would be nearly impos
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:41:01PM -0700, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
> a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
> purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
The short answer is, "no".
The slightly longer answer is, "
Jim Mooney wrote:
>Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
>a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
>purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
Only by keeping the original reference to the object. str(object) produces a
new object that has absolu
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
> a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
> purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
>
Unless you're storing them in a dictionary and the string is the ke
On 06/18/2013 09:41 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
In general, definitely not. A class can define just about anything in
its __str
Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
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Jim
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