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-rw-r--r--django/utils/datastructures.py21
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 047ba919c1..bf63b1057c 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
jcrasta@gmail.com
jdetaeye
jhenry <jhenry@theonion.com>
+ john@calixto.net
Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
Nis Jørgensen <nis@superlativ.dk>
Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
diff --git a/django/utils/datastructures.py b/django/utils/datastructures.py
index 3cbbe27b91..4656f60f2b 100644
--- a/django/utils/datastructures.py
+++ b/django/utils/datastructures.py
@@ -77,6 +77,27 @@ class MergeDict(object):
"""Returns a copy of this object."""
return self.__copy__()
+ def __str__(self):
+ '''
+ Returns something like
+
+ "{'key1': 'val1', 'key2': 'val2', 'key3': 'val3'}"
+
+ instead of the generic "<object meta-data>" inherited from object.
+ '''
+ return str(dict(self.items()))
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ '''
+ Returns something like
+
+ MergeDict({'key1': 'val1', 'key2': 'val2'}, {'key3': 'val3'})
+
+ instead of generic "<object meta-data>" inherited from object.
+ '''
+ dictreprs = ', '.join(repr(d) for d in self.dicts)
+ return '%s(%s)' % (self.__class__.__name__, dictreprs)
+
class SortedDict(dict):
"""
A dictionary that keeps its keys in the order in which they're inserted.