Respect subclass names in repr

CHANGES.md

@@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ As of build 305, installation .exe files have been deprecated; see
 Coming in build 312, as yet unreleased
 --------------------------------------
 
+* The following classes will now use the correct subclass name in `repr`: (mhammond#2570, [@Avasam][Avasam])
+  * `pywin.tools.browser.HLIPythonObject`
+  * `win32com.client.VARIANT`
+  * `win32com.client.build.MapEntry`
+  * `win32com.server.exception.COMException`
+  * `win32comext.axdebug.debugger.ModuleTreeNode`
+  * `win32comext.axscript.client.pyscript.NamedScriptAttribute`
+  * `win32comext.axscript.client.error.AXScriptException`
+  * `win32pdhquery.QueryError`
+  * `win32rcparser.StringDef`
+
 Build 311, released 2025/07/14
 ------------------------------
 

Pythonwin/pywin/tools/browser.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def __eq__(self, other):
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return (
-            f"{self.__class__.__name__}(name={self.name!r}, object={self.myobject!r})"
+            f"{self.__class__.__name__}(myobject={self.myobject!r}, name={self.name!r})"
         )
 
     def GetText(self):

com/win32com/client/__init__.py

@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ def __bool__(self):
 
 # A very simple VARIANT class.  Only to be used with poorly-implemented COM
 # objects.  If an object accepts an arg which is a simple "VARIANT", but still
-# is very pickly about the actual variant type (eg, isn't happy with a VT_I4,
+# is very picky about the actual variant type (eg, isn't happy with a VT_I4,
 # which it would get from a Python integer), you can use this to force a
 # particular VT.
 class VARIANT:
@@ -700,4 +700,4 @@ def _del_value(self):
     value = property(_get_value, _set_value, _del_value)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return f"win32com.client.VARIANT({self.varianttype!r}, {self._value!r})"
+        return f"{self.__class__.__module__}.{self.__class__.__name__}({self.varianttype!r}, {self._value!r})"

com/win32com/client/build.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class NotSupportedException(Exception):
 
 
 class MapEntry:
-    "Simple holder for named attibutes - items in a map."
+    """Simple holder for named attributes - items in a map."""
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def __init__(
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return (
-            "MapEntry(dispid={s.dispid}, desc={s.desc}, names={s.names}, doc={s.doc!r}, "
+            "{s.__class__.__name__}(dispid={s.dispid}, desc={s.desc}, names={s.names}, doc={s.doc!r}, "
             "resultCLSID={s.resultCLSID}, resultDocumentation={s.resultDocumentation}, "
             "wasProperty={s.wasProperty}, hidden={s.hidden}"
         ).format(s=self)

com/win32com/server/exception.py

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def __init__(
         pythoncom.com_error.__init__(self, scode, self.description, None, -1)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return f"{self.__class__.__name__}(scode={self.scode!r}, desc={self.description!r})"
+        return f"{self.__class__.__name__}(description={self.description!r}, scode={self.scode!r})"
 
 
 def IsCOMException(t=None):

com/win32comext/axdebug/debugger.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def __init__(self, module):
         self.cont = codecontainer.SourceModuleContainer(module)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return f"<ModuleTreeNode wrapping {self.module}>"
+        return f"<{self.__class__.__name__} wrapping {self.module}>"
 
     def Attach(self, parentRealNode):
         self.realNode.Attach(parentRealNode)

win32/Lib/win32pdhquery.py

@@ -565,6 +565,6 @@ def __init__(self, query: BaseQuery):
         self.query = query
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return f"<Query Error in {self.query!r}>"
+        return f"<{self.__class__.__name__} in {self.query!r}>"
 
     __str__ = __repr__

win32/Lib/win32rcparser.py

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def __init__(self, id, idNum, value):
         self.value = value
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return f"StringDef({self.id!r}, {self.idNum!r}, {self.value!r})"
+        return f"{self.__class__.__name__}({self.id!r}, {self.idNum!r}, {self.value!r})"
 
 
 class RCParser: