how to control formatting of a namedtuple in a list

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Boylan, Ross <Ross.Boylan at ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Even after defining custom __str__ and __format__ methods they don't affect the display of objects when they are in a list.  Is there a way to change that, other than explicitly converting each list element to a string?
>

Yep! Inside a list, it's the repr that gets shown. So you should be
able to do this:

class Foo(namedtuple("Foo", "x")):
    def __repr__(self):
          return "foolish({})".format(self.x)

This will also affect the other forms - if you don't define __str__,
it'll use __repr__. So this should be all you need.

ChrisA