Michael Bayer wrote:
__repr__() really annoys me because no matter what i do with it, people
tell me im using it incorrectly. technically, __repr__() is supposed
to return a string that when eval'ed would return the object instance.
which is not realistic for an object like Table since its
when you reflect a table from the DB, and you get back PGString, that
is the actual type instance. In some cases, table reflection could
be mapped to a type instance that is specific to that DB (such as
MySQL's enum). i dont think changing the __repr__ of all the db-
specific types to
__repr__() really annoys me because no matter what i do with it, people
tell me im using it incorrectly. technically, __repr__() is supposed
to return a string that when eval'ed would return the object instance.
which is not realistic for an object like Table since its an enormous
construction.
