# \`string(dict)\` loses information

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-dict-loses-information/15489
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-dict-loses-information/15489 "2018-09-25T21:58:37Z")
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#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-dict-loses-information/15489/5 "2018-09-26T09:23:06Z")

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Indeed one shouldn’t rely on that for `string`. which is just “give me a string at represents this in some way”.

I feel like we should be able to rely on it for `repr`.  
I think we should have have python’s convention,  
which is roughly: _if it parses, then evaling it should give back the same as a deep copy._

But we did not adopt that convention, and it is a breaking change.  
So you can not

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