A story that makes it easier to see Model debugging in the Django + SQLAlchemy environment

Background

Python and Django I'm in the first month. Rails history is about 2 years. Why is Python's Debug so hard to see? Especially Model. The following display. Who would benefit from seeing this?

>>> class Foo(object):
        pass
>>>
>>> repr(Foo())
'<__main__.Foo object at 0x02A74E50>'

If you look for the sea on the net and use repr, you can see it beautifully! Hooray! This frees you from the pain!

def __repr__(self):
    return '<Stats: description={0.description!r}, mystat={0.mystat!r}>'.format(self)

... what's this annoying.

You need to write to each class. Is it possible to add a one-shot library or something? ?? I think.

there were.

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15929677/5114776

from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
Base = declarative_base()

if __debug__:
    # monkey-patch in useful repr() for all objects, but only in dev
    def tablerepr(self):
        return "<{}({})>".format(
            self.__class__.__name__,
            ', '.join(
                ["{}={}".format(k, repr(self.__dict__[k]))
                    for k in sorted(self.__dict__.keys())
                    if k[0] != '_']
            )
        )
    Base.__repr__ = tablerepr

>>> session.query(FooBar).get(1)
<FooBar(id=1, foo='bar', comments='foobar', hoge=1231242342341342342, fuga=datetime(2015, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5), tiger='waearsdtdygfyfguiohjohjohpp'>

However, it is still difficult to see with this reference alone. I'm not a machine! A format that is easy for people to see! Otherwise it's meaningless!

Easier to see

Base = declarative_base()

if __debug__:
    # monkey-patch in useful repr() for all objects, but only in dev
    def tab_char(max_length, target_lenght):
        tab = []
        tab_char_count = 4
        tab_count = (max_length/tab_char_count - target_lenght/tab_char_count) + 1
        for i in range(tab_count):
            tab.append('\t')
        return "".join(tab)


    def table_repr(self):
        max_length = max(map(lambda n: len(n), self.__dict__.keys()))
        return "\n<{}({})>".format(
            self.__class__.__name__,
            ', '.join(
                ["\n\t{}{}= {}".format(k, tab_char(max_length, len(k)), repr(self.__dict__[k]))
                 for k in sorted(self.__dict__.keys())
                 if k[0] != '_']
            )
        )

    Base.__repr__ = table_repr

>>> session.query(FooBar).get(1)
<FooBar(
	id					= 1
	fooooooooo			= 'bar',
	comments			= 'foobar',
	hoge				= 1231242342341342342, 
	fuga				= datetime(2015, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5), 
	tiger				= 'waearsdtdygfyfguiohjohjohpp'>

Perfect.