I believe Python 3.8's '=' f-string specifier (
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#f-strings-support-for-self-documenting-expressions-and-debugging)
combined with __name__ does what you'd want:
return f'{self.__class__.__name__}({self.name=}, {self.age=})'
Outside of the __name__ dance, this is a bit more concise (and IMO
readable) than C#'s nameof.
On that note, for simple classes like this, namedtuples or 3.7's
dataclasses would serve the purpose a bit more nicely.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:51 PM Johan Vergeer <johanverg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have worked with both C# and Python for a while now and there is one
> feature of C# I'm missing in the Python language.
>
> This feature is the "nameof" operator. (
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/nameof
> ).
> The place I use this the most in C# is in `ToString()` methods or logging
> messages.
> This makes sure the developer cannot forget to update the name of a member.
>
> As an example I created this `Person` class.
>
> ```
> class Person:
> def __init__(self, name, age):
> self.name = name
> self.age = age
>
> def __repr__(self):
> return f"Person(name: {self.name}, age: {self.age})"
> ```
>
> With the `nameof` operator this would look like the following:
>
> ```
> class Person:
> def __init__(self, name, age):
> self.name = name
> self.age = age
>
> def __repr__(self):
> return f"{nameof(Person)}({nameof(self.name)}: {self.name},
> {nameof(self.age)}: {self.age})"
> ```
>
> What do you think about this?
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