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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:54:00 +1000
Subject: Re: default repr?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@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?

Methods are just functions, and you can call any method of any class
with any object as its first parameter.

object.__repr__(some_object)

Though this mightn't work with everything. I wasn't able to paint a
list as a tuple - "tuple.__repr__([1,2,3])" threw a TypeError. Oh
well. There's a limit to the ways Python lets you shoot yourself in
the foot.

ChrisA