On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Ross Williamson <rosswilliamson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > Is there anyway in a class to overload the print function? > >>> class foo_class(): >>> pass > >>> cc = foo_class() >>> print cc > > Gives: > > <__main__.foo_class instance at ....> > > Can I do something like: > >>> class foo_class(): >>> def __print__(self): >>> print "hello" > >>> cc = foo_class() >>> print cc > > Gives: > > hello > > I'm looking at finding nice way to print variables in a class just by > asking to print it
You want to overload the __str__() method: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__str__ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
