Question

If I do:

    print "The item is:" + str(1) + "."

I will get:

    The item is 1.

But if I use an object of my class, dbref (here x is one of it), and try to stringify it:

    print "The item is:" + str(x) + "."

I will get:

    The item is <mufdatatypes.dbref instance at 0xb74a2bec>.

I’d rather it return a string of my own design. Is there a function I can define within my class that will let me do this?

Answer 1

Return a string from the __str__() method. Like so:

class SomeClass(object):

  def __init__(self, value):
    self.value = value

  def __str__(self):
    return '<SomeClass %s>' % self.value