On Oct 4, 3:12 am, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > * You define a to_string() method. To have a string representation > of a class, one usually defines a __str__ method. This gives > the advantage whereby "print myobject" or '%s' % myjobject just > work.
In fairness, a lot of types define a to_string() method (especially third-party types like numpy), but it's usually to produce a raw binary output. Presumably in Python 3 these methods will be renamed to_bytes. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
