Ross Williamson wrote:
Hi All
Is there anyway in a class to overload the print function?
In Python <= 2.x "print" is a statement and thus can't be
"overloaded". That's exactly the reason, why Python 3 has turned
"print" into a function.
class foo_class():
def __print__(self):
print "hello"
cc = foo_class()
print cc
Gives:
hello
Hmm, on what Python version are you? To my knowledge there is no
__print__ special method. Did you mean __str__ or __repr__ ?
I'm looking at finding nice way to print variables in a class just by
asking to print it
In Python3 you *can* overload print(), but still, you better define
__str__() on your class to return a string, representing what ever
you want:
In [11]: class Foo(object):
....: def __str__(self):
....: return "foo"
....:
....:
In [12]: f = Foo()
In [13]: print f
foo
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