What methods need to be overridden/implemented when making user-defined classes sortable and/or hashable in python?
What are the gotchas to watch out for?
I type dir({}) into my interpreter to get a list of methods on built-in dicts. Of those, I assume I need to some implement some subset of
[‘__cmp__’, ‘__eq__’, ‘__ge__’, ‘__gt__’, ‘__hash__’, ‘….
I don’t know what the __setstate__ and __getstate__ methods do, so help me with a simple example.
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I know that __call__ method in a class is triggered when the instance of a class is called. However, I have no idea when I can use this special method, because one can simply create a new method and perform the same operation done in __call__ method and instead of calling the instance, you can call the method.
I would really appreciate it if someo….
What is the difference between __str__ and __repr__ in Python?