[New-bugs-announce] [issue13166] Implement packaging.database.Distribution.__str__

[Éric Araujo]

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org>:

In code working with instances of packaging.database.Distribution, it’s bothersome to have to use '%r %s' % (dist.name, dist.version) all the time.  It is also not good-looking in 2.x, where we get u'name'.  I think it would be best to implement a __str__ method on the class and just use %s everywhere, for example in pysetup list and pysetup search.  More sophisticated clients that want to display projects in a GUI can still access dist.name, dist.version and other attributes.

I’ve insisted on using %r for project names and paths to avoid ambiguities with trailing spaces and such hard-to-catch things.  For logging output, we have to pass pure strings, but for direct console printing we could use ANSI escape sequences to display projects’ names in bold for example.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils2
messages: 145463
nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Implement packaging.database.Distribution.__str__
versions: 3rd party, Python 3.3

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