Re: default repr?

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Date	2012-07-23 08:54 +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

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Re: default repr? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 08:54 +1000
  Re: default repr? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 00:24 +0000
    Re: default repr? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 10:29 +1000
      Re: default repr? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 01:40 +0000
    Re: default repr? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 20:44 -0400

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