Peng Yu wrote:
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def __str__(self):
return 'Bin(%s, %s)' %(self.x, self.y)
__repr__ =_str__
Please use an initial capital letter when defining a class, this is
the accepted way in many languages!!!
I want to understand the exact meaning of the last line ('__repr__ __str__').
Would you please point me to the section of the python
manual that describes such usage.
Regards,
Peng
I don't know where to look in the various manuals, but what we have here
are class attributes. Inside the class definition, each method
definition is a class attribute. In addition, any "variable" definition
is a class attribute as well. For example,
class MyClass(object):
counter = 0
def __str__(self):
return "Kilroy"+str(self.value)
def __init__(self, num):
self.value = num+1
counter is a class attribute, initialized to zero. That attribute is
shared among all the instances, unlike data attributes, which are
independently stored in each instance.
Anyway, the __repr__ = __str__ simply copies a class attribute. So
now you have two names which call the same method. To explicitly call
one of them, you might use:
obj = MyClass(42)
mystring = obj.__str__() #mystring is now "Kilroy43"
But normally, you don't directly call such methods, except for debug
purposes. They are implicitly called by functions like print().
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