On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:39 AM, spir <denis.s...@free.fr> wrote:
> Lie Ryan dixit:
>
>> class Error(Exception):
>>      def __init__(self, value):
>>          self.value = value
>>      def printer(self, value):
>>          print self.value
>
> You can also use __str__ instead of printer. This will give a standard output 
> form for your error automatically used by print and also, for exceptions, 
> when python writes it to stderr: you don't need to catch the error to write 
> it yourself.
>
>     def __str_(self, value):
>         print self.value

Should be
  def __str__(self):
    return self.value

i.e. __str__() takes just one argument (self) and returns (rather than
prints) a string.

Kent
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