Dealing with the __str__ method in classes with lots of attributes

[Cameron Simpson]

On 11May2012 15:40, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| On 11/05/2012 15:32, Andreas Tawn wrote:
| > It's also helpful to not have to display every attribute, of which there may be dozens.
| 
| Do I detect a code smell here?

Not necessarily. (Well, yeah, "dozens" may indicate time to partition
stuff.) My "O" class (back in the thread) deliberately shows only the
[a-z]* attributes so the user gets the public object state without the
noise of private attributes.

For __repr__ I might print everything. Haven't gone that far yet.

Cheers,
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