[reportlab-users] Many __repr__() methods are really __str__ methods

[Norman Shelley]

I have an application that dumps a description of how it built a pdf file so
that one can slightly modify that description and rerun the application to get a
new pdf file.

I just noticed today that when a reportlab Table instance is used that my
generated script fails. I looked into it and determined that the def
__repr__(self) methods for at least the following are really more like def
__str(self) methods.   __repr__(self) methods should output a string that Python
can interpret and these only output strings which a human can interpret and
Python crashes on their output with syntax errors.


./lib/styles.py  PropertySet
./platypus/flowables.py  KeepTogether
./platypus/paragraph.py   Paragraph
./platypus/tables.py  Table