[Tutor] New class, how return value of x in interactive shell

[Alan Gauld]

"Vincent Davis" <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote

> Take a look at the repr and str methods:
> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization
>
> Ok so I am still a little confused, It seems that __str__ is used for 
> print
> and str()

That's right and repr() is used when evaluating the object, as at the >>> 
prompt.

So

>>> print b # calls b.__str__()

whereas

>>> b # calls b.__repr__()

HTH,

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