equivalent to Java's toString()?

[Gabriel Cooper]

What is the python equivalent to java's toString()?

When debugging I want to be able to basically be able to do this:

print MyObjectInstance

or
print str(MyObjectInstance)

and have it print out formatted output along the lines of:

Object properties: Red=0 Yellow=0 Blue=255

currently I get something like this:

<Some Object at 0xff32ffca3>

In java it would look like this:

class SomeClass {
[...]
String toString() {
return new String("Object properties: Red=" + red + " Yellow: " +
yellow + " Blue: " + blue);
}
}

 

[Michael Geary]

What is the python equivalent to java's toString()?

When debugging I want to be able to basically be able to do this:

print MyObjectInstance

or
print str(MyObjectInstance)

and have it print out formatted output along the lines of:

Object properties: Red=0 Yellow=0 Blue=255

Define a __str__ method in your class. It works just like toString() in Java
and JavaScript:
.... def __str__( self ):
.... return 'My Test!'
....
Also see __repr__ for a related method.

-Mike

 

[Roy Smith]

Define a __str__ method in your class. It works just like toString() in Java
and JavaScript:

... def __str__( self ):
... return 'My Test!'
...

Also see __repr__ for a related method.

-Mike

Also, you might want to look at the pprint module. It's not quite what
you were asking for, but it's worth knowing about if you're doing this
kind of stuff.

 

[Ype Kingma]

Define a __str__ method in your class. It works just like toString() in Java
and JavaScript:

... def __str__( self ):
... return 'My Test!'
...

Also see __repr__ for a related method.

-Mike

Closing the circle, just for info, from the java docs of jython:

http://www.jython.org/docs/javadoc/org/python/core/PyObject.html#__str__()

"""Equivalent to the standard Python __str__ method. This method should not
typically need to be overridden. The easiest way to configure the string
representation of a PyObject is to override the standard Java toString
method."""

Regards,
Ype