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On 12/29/2017 11:55 AM, Ethan Smith wrote:

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

It is possible to determine whether an existing \_\_repr\_\_ is from 'object'

\>> or not, and only provide one if that is the case. I think that should be
\>> the default, with 'repr = True' for those cases where a new, auto-generated,

\_\_repr\_\_ is desired.

The only other thing you'd want to handle is to cover inheriting from another dataclass. e.g., if I have dataclass with
attribute a, and subclass it to add attribute b, I'd want both in the repr.

Good point. So auto-generate a new \_\_repr\_\_ if:

\- one is not provided, and
\- existing \_\_repr\_\_ is either:
\- object.\_\_repr\_\_, or
\- a previous dataclass \_\_repr\_\_

And if the auto default doesn't work for one's use-case, use the keyword parameter to specify what you want.

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