actually returns the path string. However since I was using IPython, showing `p` without printing it displays the object representation:
In [20]: p
Out[20]: local('/home/user')
This story is nothing I am proud of, but I wanted to share it anyway, I think there are a few interesting facets to this, e.g. how I got there:
- not discovering the solution through the documentation,
- hacking away instead of asking,
- lack of attention to detail when hacking through it (do I really wanna do this on my homefolder???),
- also: forgetting about the incident right away
I guess that makes me look bad, but I believe such errors happen everywhere and all the time. So there is the question, why did the solution not occur to me? Am I really just stupid and I am the only one? Or should the `__str__` method be included in API-documentation?
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 14.9 ms ] thread- not discovering the solution through the documentation,
- hacking away instead of asking,
- lack of attention to detail when hacking through it (do I really wanna do this on my homefolder???),
- also: forgetting about the incident right away
I guess that makes me look bad, but I believe such errors happen everywhere and all the time. So there is the question, why did the solution not occur to me? Am I really just stupid and I am the only one? Or should the `__str__` method be included in API-documentation?
I don't know, but I'd like to hear your thoughts!
(edit: formatting)