Overload print

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Ross Williamson
<rosswilliamson.spt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Is there anyway in a class to overload the print function?
>
>>> class foo_class():
>>>      pass
>
>>> cc = foo_class()
>>> print cc
>
> Gives:
>
> <__main__.foo_class instance at ....>
>
> Can I do something like:
>
>>> class foo_class():
>>>     def __print__(self):
>>>           print "hello"
>
>>> cc = foo_class()
>>> print cc
>
> Gives:
>
> hello
>
> I'm looking at finding nice way to print variables in a class just by
> asking to print it

You want to overload the __str__() method:
http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__str__

Cheers,
Chris
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