# \_\_str\_\_ not working as expected?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382 "2022-12-08T13:34:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382/1 "2022-12-08T13:34:50Z")

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I am making a class that records a result from an named query interaction with the database. I am trying to make it print nicely so I can log it and it looks nice. My code is

```auto
class Response(object):
	# TODO Figure out if these should remain keywords or shold just be positional argsProbably should not be keywords b
    def __init__ (self, success=False, result=None, error=None, errorType=None):
        self.success = success
        self.result = result
        self.error = error
        self.errorType = errorType

	def __str__ (self):
		if self.success:
			return "Success: True, Result: %s"%(str(self.result))
		else:
			return "Error Type %s Error Text: %s"%(self.errorType, self.error)

	def __repr__ (self):
		if self.success:
			return "Success: True, Result: %s"%(str(self.result))
		else:
			return "Error Type %s Error Text: %s"%(self.errorType, self.error)

```

However, doing

```auto
r = forms2.common.Response(success=True, result='Hi!', error=None, errorType=None)
print str(r)

```

prints `<common.Response object at 0x3>`. Not sure what I am missing here. When ` __str__ ` was not doing the trick I though maybe I needed ` __repr__ ` but I thought ` __repr__ ` is more for printing out the configuration of the class/all the attributes that it was initialized too for recreation purposes. What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382/2 "2022-12-08T15:45:19Z")

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Your indentations don't match. 4 spaces in front of ` __init__ ` indentations vs tabs everywhere else.

```python
class Response(object):
	# TODO Figure out if these should remain keywords or shold just be positional argsProbably should not be keywords b
	def __init__ (self, success=False, result=None, error=None, errorType=None):
		self.success = success
		self.result = result
		self.error = error
		self.errorType = errorType

	def __repr__ (self):
		if self.success:
			return "Success: True, Result: %s"%(str(self.result))
		else:
			return "Error Type %s Error Text: %s"%(self.errorType, self.error)

r = Response(success=True, result='Hi!', error=None, errorType=None)

print r
print str(r)
str(r)
r

```

Output

```nohighlight
Success: True, Result: Hi!
Success: True, Result: Hi!
'Success: True, Result: Hi!'
Success: True, Result: Hi!

```

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382/3 "2022-12-08T15:49:07Z")

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Wow I don't know how that happened but also puzzled it ever worked? I thought mismatch of spaces and tabs usually threw an IndentationError. Guess not necessarily true when it occurs inside of a class.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382/4 "2022-12-08T16:01:37Z")

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It hit up the ` __init__ ` okay, but ` __str__ ` and ` __repr__ ` used the defaults, since the indentation didn't match. I finally figured it out when I tried to add a new method to it.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/str-not-working-as-expected/67382/5 "2022-12-08T16:03:48Z")

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I guess OpenAI does not know about the importance of tabs vs spaces in python! I had it mock this up for me and I just added a few extra fields in the ` __init__ `.