On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 11:44 AM Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:
Another brainstorm (or brainfart): maybe repr() should show the module/class and the name, and str() should only show the name. We'd then get
>>> # Mock-up! >>> print(str(re.i)) IGNORE >>> print(repr(re.i)) re.IGNORE >>>and similar for Color.RED:
>>> # Another mock-up! >>> print(str(Color.RED)) RED >>> print(repr(Color.RED)) Color.RED >>>
+1. There's actually a bit of a weird edge case with IntFlag at the moment, and this would bypass that, at least for the str().
from enum import IntFlag, auto class UF(IntFlag):
... CT_LOW_GRAVITY = auto() ... FLYING = auto() ...
UF.CT_LOW_GRAVITY | UF.FLYING
<UF.FLYING|CT_LOW_GRAVITY: 3>
str(UF.CT_LOW_GRAVITY | UF.FLYING)
'UF.FLYING|CT_LOW_GRAVITY'
The "UF." prefix is put on the start of the combined group, which means it's not actually evallable (for what it's worth), and it's that bit inconsistent. I'm absolutely fine with removing the classname altogether, so this would show as "FLYING|CT_LOW_GRAVITY".
ChrisA