Re: [Python-ideas] Changing str(someclass) to return only the class name

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Bruce Leban bruce@leapyear.org wrote:

One advantage of the way it works now is that if you have a class, function or module when you're not expecting it, print tells you what's going on. Compare these:

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print('9'.isdigit)

isdigit

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print('9'.isdigit)

<built-in method isdigit of str object at 0x01D5A038>

Fortunately, that particular example won't change, because '9'.isdigit is not a function -- it is a bound method. They're different object types.