Printing part of object's string

Question

Let's say I have a class like this:

class Cls:
    def __init__(self, a,b,c):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c
    def __str__(self):
        return f"{self.a} {self.b} {self.c}"

and I want to print only the first two items. I can do this by brute force:

c = Cls(1,2,3)
print(str(c)[:3])

But, is there a more elegant (Pythonic) way to do this?

Answer 1

Your slice only works if the first 2 items are only 1 digit each.

You should split the string into a list using whitespace delimiters and slice that.

c = Cls(12, 345, 6)
print(*str(c).split()[:2])