Actual value of a subclassed str

Question

How can I read the inputted value "transform" from the instance of this subclass?

class Str(str):
    def __repr__(self):
        return "mesh"

    def __str__(self):
        return "mesh"

string = Str("transform")
print(string)
# mesh
print(repr(string))
# mesh

Answer 1

You cannot edit the value. You can retrieve it as a regular string with

str.__str__(string)

using the overridden __str__ method directly.

The C++ binding is most likely reading the string through the Python C API, which goes directly to the underlying storage in the structure your object inherits from str, bypassing the methods you wrote.

As for what you should do, you should get out of this whole situation with subclassing str and overriding __str__. The right way to do that will depend on why you even got yourself into this situation in the first place.