On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:58 AM, David D <daviddsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am creating a parent class and a child class. I am inheriting from the > parent with an additional attribute in the child class. I am using __str__ > to return the information. When I run the code, it does exactly what I want, > it returns the __str__ information. This all works great. > > BUT > > 1) I want what is returned to be appended to a list (the list will be my > database) > 2) I append the information to the list that I created > 3) Whenever I print the list, I get a memory location
Technically it's an identity, not a memory location, but yes, I know what you mean here. What's happening is that printing a list actually prints the *repr* of an object, rather than its str. The easiest change is to rename your __str__ function to __repr__; if you don't need them to be different, define __repr__ and it'll be used for printing as well. By the way, you'll find that Python 3 makes some things with class definitions a bit easier. There are less traps to potentially fall into. I strongly suggest using the latest Python (currently 3.6) or something close to it (3.5 is in a lot of Linux distributions). All the best! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
