How to make a python object return attribute data when called directly

Question

So i want to something like this in Python:

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.name, self.age

p = Person('A', 20)

Then hope to call object p directly to get the tuple (self.name, self.age)

But as you can see when you run this program, you get the problem:

TypeError: __repr__ returned non-string (type tuple)

How can have this behavior?

Thanks!

Note: The problem is not specific to the tuple data type; it can be anything, like a pandas dataframe for example. I just want to return some attribute data, whatever type it is.

Answer 1

As the error suggest, your __repr__ must return a string

def __repr__(self):
    return self.name + str(self.age)

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Now, if your goal is to write a custom way of representing your object as a tuple, what you are looking for is _iter__ instead,

def __iter__(self):
    yield self.name
    yield self.age

p = Person('A', 20)
print(tuple(p))
>>>>('A', 20)

Answer 2

You can make Person iterable:

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

    def __iter__(self):
        yield self.name
        yield self.age

name, age = p