of
getting the default repr output for that class anyway?
If the class, call it C, is a subclass of some other class (or classes),
then there is also the repr of the parent. You can get to that by calling
parent.__repr__(instance), although there are some subtleties.
In Python 2, there are old-style
If a class has defined its own __repr__ method, is there a way of getting
the default repr output for that class anyway?
I'm attempting to graph some objects by digging around in the garbage
collector's idea of what objects exist, and when I go to format them for
the graph node labels, the ones
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
If a class has defined its own __repr__ method, is there a way of getting
the default repr output for that class anyway?
Methods are just functions, and you can call any method of any class
with any object as its first
On 22 July 2012 23:48, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
If a class has defined its own __repr__ method, is there a way of getting
the default repr output for that class anyway?
For new style classes you can just call object.__repr__ e.g.:
In [1]: class A(object):
...: pass
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:54:00 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com
wrote:
If a class has defined its own __repr__ method, is there a way of
getting the default repr output for that class anyway?
If the class, call it C, is a subclass
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Methods are just functions, and you can call any method of any class
with any object as its first parameter.
Not quite: they have to be an instance of that class.
Though this mightn't work with
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Not quite: they have to be an instance of that class.
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Hmm. I would have thought that methods were like all other
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:29:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Methods are just functions, and you can call any method of any class
with any object as its first parameter.
Not quite: they have to be an
