Issue629217

Implemented method __str__() on PyArray, using the 
tostring() method that was already there. Left tostring() for 
backwards compatibility.
I have not yet figured out how to add this to the docs of 
jarray.
In case this needs more testing than interactive, let me 
know.

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this a bit controversial, because CPython itself does

>>> str(array.array('c','xbc'))
"array('c', 'xbc')"

but if I remember the discussion it is valuable to it.
But as it is I think it break str for non chars array,
there's should be an if to fallback to repr form
for those cases.

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s/valuable to it/valuable to go for it/

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Why is Jython choosing to differentiate from CPython in this regard?  The 
CPython value is as Sameule wrote, with the Jython version flipping the 
order of type and values as well as spelling the type out rather than 
having the single character.

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It's been a while, but the original problem was to get a python 
string from a java character buffer. I had to actually go to 
the source code of jarray to find the tostring() method 
in the first place. I remember trying str() and that wouldn't 
work. 
So, the point was not to implement str(), but to have 
a straightforward way to get from a java character buffer to 
a python string; str() seemed like a good way to do that, 
but any other (preferably documented) way could be good. 
 
What is the CPython way to get a python string from a 
character buffer? str() seems to return too much there. 
 
Kind regards, 
Ype 
 
 

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I don't think str() should call tostring() because that is
not what
cpython does.  But PyArray should be changed so that str()
outputs the typecode first.  The real goal is as follows:

Python 2.2.3 (#42, May 30 2003, 18:12:08)
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "li
>>> from array import array
>>> x=array('c',"abcde")
>>> x == eval(str(x))
1

Currently, this produces "NameError: char".  Unless I hear
otherwise from someone, I'll set this to Closed--Rejected 
and implement the requisite changes.

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I finally got the point that tostring() is also the CPython 
way to get from a character array to a python string: 
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-array.html 
and I agree to reject the original patch. 
 
Thanks for looking into this, 
 
Kind regards, 
Ype 
 

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I agree to reject this as well and fix as suggested by Clark.

thanks, brian