On 02/20/2015 10:24 AM, Demian Brecht wrote: > I think that a decent rule around the usage of __str__ is that it should > be a string representation of the value, not of the object. Failing the > ability to logically coerce the value to a string, it should simply fall > back to repr(obj).
There are two "stringy" methods for objects: __repr__ and __str__; if __str__ has not been defined __repr__ is automatically used. One of the motivating forces behind Enum is that often the name is more important (for humans) than the actual value, so __str__ is defined as being the Enum class name plus the Enum member name. The __repr__ has that as well as the underlying value (occasionally it's useful to know that, too ;) . -- ~Ethan~
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