[IronPython] __repr__ and __str__ for .NET types

[Jonathan Jacobs]

Hi,

In all the cases I've seen, calling repr on a .NET type ends up calling 
ToString which is generally reasonably useful but almost always unnecessarily 
verbose. Sometimes it would be nice if it gave you something a little more 
specific about the object in question, something less like:

  >>> v = Microsoft.DirectX.Vector3()
  >>> repr(v)
  'X: 0\nY: 0\nZ: 0\n'

and something more like:

  >>> class Foo(object): pass
  >>> ...
  >>> repr(Foo())
  '<Foo object at 0x000000000000002B>'

and leaving __str__ to return the ToString value.

This behaviour also fits the CPython documentation 
(http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html), for these two functions, more 
closely than the current behaviour, IMO.

Regards
-- 
Jonathan

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