On 10/22/2011 12:35 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Terry Reedy<tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 10/21/2011 8:39 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
str(module) ==> module.__name__ str(func) ==> func.__name__ str(cls) ==> "{}.{}".format(cls.__module__, cls.__name__) # See note below
If you do this, then also do str(generator) ==> generator.__name__
Why?
For printing messages (which I currently do with failing generators), as you explained in another post: "But thinking of str(x) as what gets printed by print(x), formatted by "{}.format(x)", and "%s" % s, changes things. When I am printing an object and I have no idea what type it is, I'll use repr() or "%r"; but when I know I am printing, say, an exception, I think it would be very nice if print(x) would just print its name."
Assuming by "generator" you mean the iteror returned by calling a generator function (not the generator function itself, which is covered by str(func) ==> func.__name__), the generator has no "name" which can be used to retrieve it. The three above (module, function, class) all -- typically -- are referenced by variables whose name is forced by the syntax (import foo, def foo, class foo). But that does not apply to a generator.
Not relevant unless you want to do something like globals()[str(obj)] or getattr(namespace, str(obj)). The .__name__ attribute of generators is just as much forced by syntax as for the others, as it is a copy of the parent generator function. I am currently +0, as I do not mind occasionally typing .__name__, although I believe it *is* the only exposed __xxx__ name (outside of class statements) in my current code. -- Terry Jan Reedy