Shrutarshi Basu wrote:
I'm working on a graph class to become more familiar with graphs in
general. I'd like to be able to do something like 'print gr' and get
something intelligible like a list of vertices. But using print on a
Graph class instance simply returns <Graph instance at some_hex_addr>
Is there someway I can change what print prints?
print will print the string returned by an object's __str__ method.
Try something like this:
In [1]: class Example(object):
...: def __init__(self, x):
...: self.x=x
...: def __str__(self):
...: return "x is: %s"%(self.x)
...:
In [3]: ex=Example(5)
In [4]: print ex
x is: 5
The "basic customization" page in the Python Reference Manual may be of
use as well: http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html
HTH,
JordanG
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