On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-09-26 09:32 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a method in python that is similar to the function >> str() in R, if you are familiar with R, >> >> If you have no idea of R, what I want is to print the class >> information of an object and the values of its members. Overloading >> '__expr__' and '__repr__' then using 'print' can sort of do what I >> want. But not quite. For example, if I have a list of many elements, I >> don't want to print all the elements. R's str() function can >> automatically take care of this issue. It also has other advantages, I >> am wondering if there is something similar available in python? > > I use Armin Ronacher's pretty.py as a pluggable pretty-printer. You can plug > into its logic to implement these kinds of tools. > > http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/file/tip/pretty
But I want an even simpler solution. I don't want the user to define __pretty__. Is there a tool that can automatically print the content of an object without defining such a member function like __pretty__. Regards, Peng -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list