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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index 855dc82..41ce234 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -583,10 +583,12 @@ class, then \verb\x[i]\ is equivalent to \verb\x.__getitem__(i)\. (The reverse is not true --- if \verb\x\ is a list object, \verb\x.__getitem__(i)\ is not equivalent to \verb\x[i]\.) -Except for \verb\__repr__\ and \verb\__cmp__\, attempts to execute an +Except for \verb\__repr__\, \verb\__str__\ and \verb\__cmp__\, +attempts to execute an operation raise an exception when no appropriate method is defined. For \verb\__repr__\ and \verb\__cmp__\, the traditional interpretations are used in this case. +For \verb\__str__\, the \verb\__repr__\ method is used. \subsection{Special methods for any type} @@ -612,8 +614,12 @@ reference is deleted. Also note that it is not guaranteed that the interpreter exits. \item[\tt __repr__(self)] -Called by the \verb\print\ statement and conversions (reverse quotes) to -compute the string representation of an object. +Called by the \verb\repr()\ built-in function and by conversions +(reverse quotes) to compute the string representation of an object. + +\item[\tt __str__(self)] +Called by the \verb\str()\ built-in function and by the \verb\print\ +statement compute the string representation of an object. \item[\tt __cmp__(self, other)] Called by all comparison operations. Should return -1 if |