python的class的__str__和__repr__(转)

本文参考自:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18393701/the-difference-between-str-and-repr?noredirect=1&lq=1

在stackoverflow上，有个兄弟问了这个问题：

首先定义一个类：

class Item():
    def __init__(self,name):
        self._name=name

　　def __str__(self):

   　　return "Item's name is :"+self._name

print((Item("Car"),))

返回的是：

C:\Python35\python.exe C:/fitme/work/nltk/1.py
(<__main__.Item object at 0x000001DC3F9BB390>,)

Process finished with exit code 0

更改成这样的代码后：

class Item():
    def __init__(self,name):
        self._name=name
    # def __str__(self):
    #     return "Item's name is :"+self._name

    def __repr__(self):
        return "Item's name is :" + self._name

print((Item("Car"),))

返回结果是：

C:\Python35\python.exe C:/fitme/work/nltk/1.py
(Item's name is :Car,)

Process finished with exit code 0

有人解答如下：

1.对于一个object来说，__str__和__repr__都是返回对object的描述，只是，前一个的描述简短而友好，后一个的描述，更细节复杂一些。

2.对于有些数据类型，__repr__返回的是一个string，比如：str('hello') 返回的是'hello',而repr('hello')返回的是“‘hello’”

3.现在是重点了：

Some data types, like file objects, can't be converted to strings this way. The __repr__ methods of such objects usually return a string in angle brackets that includes the object's data type and memory address. User-defined classes also do this if you don't specifically define the __repr__ method.

When you compute a value in the REPL, Python calls __repr__ to convert it into a string. When you use print, however, Python calls __str__.

When you call print((Item("Car"),)), you're calling the __str__ method of the tuple class, which is the same as its __repr__ method. That method works by calling the __repr__ method of each item in the tuple, joining them together with commas (plus a trailing one for a one-item tuple), and surrounding the whole thing with parentheses. I'm not sure why the __str__ method of tuple doesn't call __str__ on its contents, but it doesn't.

print(('hello').__str__())
print(('hello').__repr__())

有一个更简单的例子如下：

from datetime import datetime as dt
print(dt.today().__str__())
print(dt.today().__repr__())

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C:\Python35\python.exe C:/fitme/work/nltk/1.py 2017-06-16 11:09:40.211841 datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 16, 11, 9, 40, 211841)   Process finished with exit code 0