From dd97b10ff1f3d4f99f20325118325fe35a3a276a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriel Bustamante <gabrielbusta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:40:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: misleading __repr__ for Species(None) and Species('*')
 (#479)

---
 pycalphad/variables.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pycalphad/variables.py b/pycalphad/variables.py
index e035c0c63..bce229785 100644
--- a/pycalphad/variables.py
+++ b/pycalphad/variables.py
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ def weight(self):
 
     def __repr__(self):
         if self.name == '*':
-            return '*'
+            return str(self.__class__.__name__)+'(\'*\')'
         if self.name == '':
-            return 'None'
+            return str(self.__class__.__name__)+"(None)"
         species_constituents = ''.join(
             ['{}{}'.format(el, val) for el, val in sorted(self.constituents.items(), key=lambda t: t[0])])
         if self.charge == 0: