Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Serhiy called subclassing 'particular and cumbersome'. 'Cumbersome' is an opinion. I consider subclassing elegant. The ease of doing so and specializing only what one needs to is a major feature of Python. It only took me a couple of minutes to whip up solutions for two different cases.
I think 'particular' is wrong. Subclassing is a general solution for a particular class of values. As I illustrated, it results in the value getting its custom representation *everywhere*. Other solutions seem to give it its custom representation only in the particular context of standard signature displays, and its 'regular' not-so-good representation when directly accessed. To me, that is much worse. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16801> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
