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

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/23/11 11:27, Georg Brandl wrote:
> On 10/23/11 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> [...]
>>> It might be the integer 1 or the string "1". You need repr() to tell
>>> the difference.
>> 
>> Antoine, that's a cheap shot. The *very next paragraph* of my post which 
>> you replied to, and which you snipped out of your response, says:
>> 
>>      I am aware that the string representation (using either __str__
>>      or __repr__) of an object is not the definitive word in what
>>      the object really is. Using just print, one can't distinguish
>>      between a class and a string "<class '__main__.Spam'>", or for
>>      that matter between the string 2 and the int 2, and that
>>      arbitrary objects can return arbitrary strings. Nevertheless,
>>      I like the __str__ of classes, modules and functions just the
>>      way they are.
>> 
>> 
>> Can we please stop throwing up this red herring?
> 
> Well, if you stop throwing the red herring of "but you can't decide between
> strings and classes anymore".
> 
> By your own quote you're now down to "but I like it the way it is",
> which is fine as a -1 in the "voting", but please don't make it seem like
> you have subjective arguments.

s/subjective/objective/, of course :)

Georg