creating class objects inside methods
Carl Banks
pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 15:40:49 EDT 2009
On Oct 4, 3:12 am, Albert Hopkins <mar... at letterboxes.org> wrote:
> * You define a to_string() method. To have a string representation
> of a class, one usually defines a __str__ method. This gives
> the advantage whereby "print myobject" or '%s' % myjobject just
> work.
In fairness, a lot of types define a to_string() method (especially
third-party types like numpy), but it's usually to produce a raw
binary output.
Presumably in Python 3 these methods will be renamed to_bytes.
Carl Banks
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