On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:50:36 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> I don't think this is particularly useful behaviour. How do you use it?
>
> def __str__(self):
> return self._format % self
That doesn't work. It calls self.__str__ recursively until Python halts
the process.
>>> class Thing(dict):
... _format = "Thing %s is good."
... def __str__(self):
... return self._format % self
...
>>> X = Thing()
>>> X # calls __repr__ so is safe
{}
>>> str(X) # not safe
File "<stdin>", line 4, in __str__
File "<stdin>", line 4, in __str__
...
File "<stdin>", line 4, in __str__
File "<stdin>", line 4, in __str__
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
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Steven.
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