[Python-Dev] Concerns about method overriding and subclassing with dataclasses (original) (raw)

Ethan Smith ethan at ethanhs.me
Fri Dec 29 19:52:31 EST 2017


attrs just silently overwrites any user provided repr unless you provide repr=False to attr.s.

I think we can all agree that if nothing else, silently overwriting unconditionally is not what we want for dataclasses.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote: > 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.

What does attrs do here? -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org


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