[IronPython] Printing an object out as a string

[Curt Hagenlocher]

If you're willing to live on the bleeding edge and build from the latest
sources, it turns out that Tomas just added this functionality to the
hosting interfaces yesterday. ObjectOperations.Format(obj) should return a
string that matches what the REPL would have printed.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Jeff Slutter <jslutter at reactorzero.com>wrote:

> Given an object, how can I go about printing out that object as a string
> representing the object in Python syntax?
>
> I need something a little more powerful than just object.ToString()
>
> I need something like how the interactive console reports the result of
> the statement.
>
> For instance:
>
> a = [0,1,2]
> b = [a,8,9]
>
> If I pass 'b' to a function in C#, like:
>
> void SomeFunction( object obj )
> {
>   string objStr = ConvertToString( obj );
>   Console.Write( objStr );
> }
>
> it would print out:
> [[0,1,2],8,9]
>
> Obviously ToString() will work for simple things, but once I try to use
> lists or dictionaries it no longer works.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeff
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