On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:28:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I have the following class - > >class TestOutcomes: > PASSED = 0 > FAILED = 1 > ABORTED = 2 > >plus the following code - > >testResult = TestOutcomes.PASSED > >testResultAsString >if testResult == TestOutcomes.PASSED: > testResultAsString = "Passed" >elif testResult == TestOutcomes.FAILED : > testResultAsString = "Failed" >else: > testResultAsString = "Aborted" > >But it would be much nicer if I had a function to covert to string as >part of the TestOutcomes class. How would I implement this? > You should implement __str__ (or __repr__) method in your class,
class TestOutcomes: PASSED = 0 FAILED = 1 ABORTED = 2 def __str__(self): textResultAsString="Unknown" if testResult == TestOutcomes.PASSED: testResultAsString = "Passed" elif testResult == TestOutcomes.FAILED : testResultAsString = "Failed" else: testResultAsString = "Aborted" return testResultAsString Regards, Zara -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list