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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Dec 29 20:04:35 EST 2017


On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

Good point. So auto-generate a new repr if:

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

On Dec 29, 2017 5:43 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" wrote:

What does attrs do here?

On 12/29/2017 04:52 PM, Ethan Smith wrote:

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

On 12/29/2017 04:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I still think it should overrides anything that's just inherited but nothing that's defined in the class being decorated.

I can certainly live with that.

-- Ethan



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