Why __repr__ works and repr does not on a dictionary return?
class Person: name = "" age = 0
def __init__(self, personName, personAge):
self.name = personName
self.age = personAge
def __repr__(self):
return {'name':self.name, 'age':self.age}
p = Person('Pankaj', 34)
print(p.__repr__())
print(repr(p))
OUTPUT:
{'name': 'Pankaj', 'age': 34}
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
print(repr(p))
TypeError: __repr__ returned non-string (type dict)
Reading the below I think option 2 returns an object, option 1 a string.
The official Python documentation says repr() is used to compute the “official” string representation of an object. The repr() built-in function uses repr() to display the object. repr() returns a printable representation of the object, one of the ways possible to create this object.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/What-does-the-repr-function-do-in-Python-Object-Oriented-Programming
Does print call str or repr? str() displays today's date in a way that the user can understand the date and time. repr() prints “official” representation of a date-time object (means using the “official” string representation we can reconstruct the object).
