quote - (Though to be fair, I don't really know what the actual problem was, so
I might provide a different approach with a different goal )
Originally I was trying to understand the exact structure of the list being
returned by the gedcom library. It worked as it was, but I wanted to add
addit
I added a __repr__ method at the end of the gedcom library like so:
def __repr__(self):
""" Format this element as its original string """
result = repr(self.level())
if self.pointer() != "":
result += ' ' + self.pointer()
result += ' ' + self.tag()
At the risk of coming across as a complete dunder-head, I think my confusion
has to do with the type of data the library returns in the list. Any kind of
text or integer list I manually create, doesn't do this.
See my questions down below at the end.
If I run the following statements on the lis
Thanks for the replies. I definitely need a better understanding of "" when using Python objects. So far no luck with web searches
or my Python books. Could someone point (no pun intended) me to a good
resource?
Not that it matters, but the reason I got off track is there are pointers
within m
> When Python's "print" statement/function is invoked, it will print the
> textual representation of the object according to its class's __str__ or
> __repr__ method. That is, the print function prints out whatever text
> the class says it should.
>
> For classes which don't implement a __str__
I've been using an old text parsing library and have been able to accomplish
most of what I wanted to do. But I don't understand the list structure it uses
well enough to build additional methods.
If I print the list, it has thousands of elements within its brackets separated
by commas as I wou
