New submission from Radu Dan:
Classes that extend the builtin 'str' cannot be printed as is, and are
automatically converted to string.
#!/bin/env python
class newstring(str):
def __str__(self):
return self
a = newstring("hello world")
print a
Running this returns:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./test.py", line 7, in <module>
print a
RuntimeError: print recursion
Given that instances of 'str' are immutable, I see no reason why this should
not work.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 172396
nosy: Radu.Dan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow printing of str-derived classes
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue16167>
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