default repr?

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 22 July 2012 23:48, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If a class has defined its own __repr__ method, is there a way of getting
> the default repr output for that class anyway?
>

For new style classes you can just call object.__repr__ e.g.:

In [1]: class A(object):
   ...:     pass
   ...:

In [2]: class B(object):
   ...:     def __repr__(self):
   ...:         return 'foo'
   ...:

In [3]: a = A()

In [4]: b = B()

In [5]: repr(a)
Out[5]: '<__main__.A object at 0x2136b10>'

In [6]: repr(b)
Out[6]: 'foo'

In [7]: object.__repr__(b)
Out[7]: '<__main__.B object at 0x2136c10>'

Oscar.
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