[Python-ideas] Reprs of classes and functions

[Andrew Barnert]

My first response seems to have bounced, so:

Besides backward compatibility, there's still a minor downside to that: the current behavior helps catch some novice errors, like storing a function instead of calling the function and storing its return value. Printing `<function spam.cook`> instead of the expected `spam, spam, eggs, beans, spam` is a lot more obvious than seeing `cook` alone. But as I said, it's pretty minor. It's still not _that_ hard to understand from `cook`, especially if you ask someone for help, and this is the kind of mistake that novices only make once (and usually ask for help with). The benefit to everyone surely outweighs the small cost to novices.

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On Feb 25, 2015, at 8:21, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> A variant I've often wanted is to make str() return the "clean" type only (e.g. 'int') while leaving repr() alone -- this would address most problems Steven brought up.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This idea is already casually mentioned, but sank deep into the threads of the discussion. Raise it up.
>> 
>> Currently reprs of classes and functions look as:
>> 
>> >>> int
>> <class 'int'>
>> >>> int.from_bytes
>> <built-in method from_bytes of type object at 0x826cf60>
>> >>> open
>> <built-in function open>
>> >>> import collections
>> >>> collections.Counter
>> <class 'collections.Counter'>
>> >>> collections.Counter.fromkeys
>> <bound method Counter.fromkeys of <class 'collections.Counter'>>
>> >>> collections.namedtuple
>> <function namedtuple at 0xb6fc4adc>
>> 
>> What if change default reprs of classes and functions to just full qualified name __module__ + '.' + __qualname__ (or just __qualname__ if __module__ is builtins)? This will look more neatly. And such reprs are evaluable.
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