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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>At the moment, when a python function, like print, calls an object attribute it does this (if it were written in python):<div><font face="Courier New, sans-serif"> type(obj).__str__(obj)</font></div><div>This can be restrictive in lots of situations and I think it would be better to just get the attribute from the object itself.</div><div><font face="Courier New, sans-serif"> obj.__str__()</font></div><div>It would make you free to override it on a per object basis. In some cases, this could lead to huge optimization.</div><div>Obviously, it is easy to fix yourself, but it is a layer of uncharacteristic unintuitiveness:</div><div><font face="Courier New, sans-serif"> def __str__(self):</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, sans-serif"> self._str()</font></div> </div></body>
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