Why doesn't Python (error msg) tell me WHAT the actual (arg) values are ?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-02-23 20:32:26 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 2/23/23 01:08, Hen Hanna wrote:
> >  Python VM  is seeing an "int" object (123)   (and telling me that)
> >  ...   so it should be easy to print that "int" object What does
> >  Python VM    know ?   and when does it know it ?
> It knows there is an object and its name and type.  It knows this from
> the first moment you create the object and bind a name to it.
> > it seems like  it is being playful, teasing (or mean),    and
> > hiding  the ball from me
> 
> Sorry you aren't understanding.  Whenever you print() out an object,
> python calls the object's __repr__() method to generate the string to
> display.  For built-in objects this is obviously trivial. But if you
> were dealing an object of some arbitrary class, there may not be a
> __repr__() method

Is this even possible? object has a __repr__ method, so all other
classes would inherit that if they don't define one themselves. I guess
it's possible to explicitely remove it ...

> which would cause an exception, or if the __repr__()
> method itself raised an exception,

Yup. That is possible and has happened to me several times - of course
always in a situation where I really needed that output ...

        hp

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