[Python-ideas] automation of __repr__/__str__ for all the common simple cases

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt
<Ronny.Pfannschmidt at gmx.de> wrote:
> the implementation and the interface is pretty simple and straightforward

However, the question is whether it's simple and straightforward
enough to be worth standardising.

There are a few common patterns that recur in repr implementations:

- <type(obj) & id(obj)> based (the object.__repr__ default)

- cls(arg1, arg2...) positional argument based

- cls(kwd1=arg1, kwd2=arg2...) keyword argument based

- a mixture of the previous two options

Adding some helpers along those lines to reprlib may make sense, but a
meaningful ReprMixin places stronger constraints on the relationship
between class attributes and the desired repr output than is
appropriate for the standard library. It's way too idiosyncratic
across developers to be worth promoting in the stdlib (a project or
domain specific class hierarchy is a different story, but that's not
relevant for a general purpose ReprMixin proposal).

Cheers,
Nick.

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