Issue 10661: ElementTree QName has a very uninformative repr() (original) (raw)

Issue10661

Created on 2010-12-09 16:54 by exarkun, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg123687 - (view)	Author: Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun) *	Date: 2010-12-09 16:54
This is somewhat unfortunate behavior: >>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import QName >>> QName('foo') <xml.etree.ElementTree.QName instance at 0x10049c830> >>> It becomes even more apparent when encountered in a situation like this: >>> print {QName('foo'): 'bar', QName('baz'): 'quux'} {<xml.etree.ElementTree.QName instance at 0x10049cb90>: 'bar', <xml.etree.ElementTree.QName instance at 0x10049c248>: 'quux'} >>> I would like to see QName.__repr__ return something like '<QName %r>' % (text,)
msg123690 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2010-12-09 18:10
Added in r87147.
msg123691 - (view)	Author: Eric V. Smith (eric.smith) *	Date: 2010-12-09 18:22
This should be either: '<QName %r>' % (self.text,) or: '<QName {!r}>'.format(self.text) If self.text is a tuple (which granted is its own error), then the version checked in will raise an exception.
msg123692 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2010-12-09 18:26
Granted. Since the rest of the file uses old-style format, I've kept to it, r87148.