Allow bare lists from the MTProto API to be printed nicely

pyrogram/api/core/__init__.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from .future_salt import FutureSalt
 from .future_salts import FutureSalts
 from .gzip_packed import GzipPacked
+from .list import List
 from .message import Message
 from .msg_container import MsgContainer
 from .object import Object

pyrogram/api/core/list.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Pyrogram - Telegram MTProto API Client Library for Python
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Dan Tès <https://github.com/delivrance>
+#
+# This file is part of Pyrogram.
+#
+# Pyrogram is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
+# by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Pyrogram is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with Pyrogram.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from .object import Object
+
+
+class List(list, Object):
+    __slots__ = []
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "pyrogram.api.core.List([{}])".format(",".join(Object.__str__(i) for i in self))

pyrogram/api/core/object.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 # along with Pyrogram.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 from collections import OrderedDict
-from datetime import datetime
 from io import BytesIO
 from json import dumps
 
@@ -36,32 +35,22 @@ class Object:
     def write(self, *args) -> bytes:
         pass
 
-    def __eq__(self, other: "Object") -> bool:
-        for attr in self.__slots__:
-            try:
-                if getattr(self, attr) != getattr(other, attr):
-                    return False
-            except AttributeError:
-                return False
+    @staticmethod
+    def default(obj: "Object"):
+        if isinstance(obj, bytes):
+            return repr(obj)
 
-        return True
+        return OrderedDict(
+            [("_", obj.QUALNAME)]
+            + [
+                (attr, getattr(obj, attr))
+                for attr in obj.__slots__
+                if getattr(obj, attr) is not None
+            ]
+        )
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
-        def default(obj: Object):
-            try:
-                return OrderedDict(
-                    [("_", obj.QUALNAME)]
-                    + [(attr, getattr(obj, attr))
-                       for attr in obj.__slots__
-                       if getattr(obj, attr) is not None]
-                )
-            except AttributeError:
-                if isinstance(obj, datetime):
-                    return obj.strftime("%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S")
-                else:
-                    return repr(obj)
-
-        return dumps(self, indent=4, default=default, ensure_ascii=False)
+        return dumps(self, indent=4, default=Object.default, ensure_ascii=False)
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return "pyrogram.api.{}({})".format(
@@ -73,6 +62,16 @@ class Object:
             )
         )
 
+    def __eq__(self, other: "Object") -> bool:
+        for attr in self.__slots__:
+            try:
+                if getattr(self, attr) != getattr(other, attr):
+                    return False
+            except AttributeError:
+                return False
+
+        return True
+
     def __len__(self) -> int:
         return len(self.write())
 

pyrogram/api/core/primitives/vector.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from io import BytesIO
 
 from . import Int
+from ..list import List
 from ..object import Object
 
 
@@ -37,11 +38,11 @@ class Vector(Object):
 
     @staticmethod
     def read(b: BytesIO, t: Object = None) -> list:
-        return [
+        return List(
             t.read(b) if t
             else Vector._read(b)
             for _ in range(Int.read(b))
-        ]
+        )
 
     def __new__(cls, value: list, t: Object = None) -> bytes:
         return b"".join(