terry reedy twhvuyludeledu guido van rossum wrote message newsca471dc20804031118l30eae131i1487e46c19e55b56mailgmailcom thu apr 3 2008 1258 martin v lwis wrote really mean fix standardize terminology especially repr dont want called wimp anymore indeed r23331 gvanrossum 20010925 055629 0200 di 25 sep 2001 5 lines change repr newstyle class say rather exception builtin type extension type continue call call wimp dont want break user code necessary well going break user code 30 time could find tracker httpbugspythonorgissue2565 thu 07 aug 2008 053350 0400 python3000 types classes