On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:50:07 PM UTC-5, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Thank you; I can confirm that overriding __repr__ makes the list display as I > wanted. > > The decision to use repr inside the list seems very odd, given the context, > namely formatting something for display or looking for a simple string > representation. It seems more natural to me to use str or, if in a format, > the default formatting all the way down. Is there a good reason it's repr?
I think of it as str is for customers, repr is for developers. Or, repr is for nerds, str is for civilians, etc. If you print a list, then you will get square brackets and commas separating the display. That is, you are already getting a nerdy output. So the contents of the list are also displayed in the nerdy way, with repr. If you want a nice display of the contents, you also have to control the display of the list itself, so you can do whatever you need, and use str on the contents yourself. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
