BUG: repr/str of storers in HDFStore was calling an incorrect method

Author: jreback

pandas/io/pytables.py

@@ -1914,9 +1914,6 @@ def __unicode__(self):
             return "%-12.12s (shape->%s)" % (self.pandas_type, s)
         return self.pandas_type
 
-    def __str__(self):
-        return self.__repr__()
-
     def set_object_info(self):
         """ set my pandas type & version """
         self.attrs.pandas_type = str(self.pandas_kind)

pandas/io/tests/test_pytables.py

@@ -313,6 +313,16 @@ def test_repr(self):
             repr(store)
             str(store)
 
+        # storers
+        with ensure_clean(self.path) as store:
+
+            df = tm.makeDataFrame()
+            store.append('df',df)
+
+            s = store.get_storer('df')
+            repr(s)
+            str(s)
+
     def test_contains(self):
 
         with ensure_clean(self.path) as store: