Near Final PEP 247 - API for Cryptographic Hash Functions

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:34:14PM +0400, Roman Suzi wrote:
> > >     http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0247.html
> > 
> > Why not to define __repr__ and __str__?
> 
>  
> >    __repr__ = hexdigest
> > 
> >    def str(self):
> >       return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.hexdigest())
> 
> And more like that, repr representation should be recreatable
> into digest-object again. So I propose to add new constructor which will
> read hexdigest and make approprate object, that is this must be tru:
> 
> eval(repr(digestobj)) == digestobj

   That was my intention, but I did a mistake. Correct:

   __str__ = hexdigest

   def __repr__(self):
      return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.hexdigest())

Oleg.
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