diff --git a/contrib/pyln-client/pyln/client/gossmap.py b/contrib/pyln-client/pyln/client/gossmap.py
index f10f490f0..79d5d2b21 100755
--- a/contrib/pyln-client/pyln/client/gossmap.py
+++ b/contrib/pyln-client/pyln/client/gossmap.py
@@ -32,10 +32,12 @@ class GossipStoreHeader(object):
 
 class GossmapHalfchannel(object):
     """One direction of a GossmapChannel."""
-    def __init__(self, timestamp: int,
-                 cltv_expiry_delta: int,
+    def __init__(self, channel: GossmapChannel, direction: int,
+                 timestamp: int, cltv_expiry_delta: int,
                  htlc_minimum_msat: int, htlc_maximum_msat: int,
                  fee_base_msat: int, fee_proportional_millionths: int):
+        self.channel = channel
+        self.direction = direction
         self.timestamp: int = timestamp
         self.cltv_expiry_delta: int = cltv_expiry_delta
         self.htlc_minimum_msat: int = htlc_minimum_msat
@@ -43,6 +45,9 @@ class GossmapHalfchannel(object):
         self.fee_base_msat: int = fee_base_msat
         self.fee_proportional_millionths: int = fee_proportional_millionths
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "GossmapHalfchannel[{}x{}]".format(str(self.channel.scid), self.direction)
+
 
 class GossmapChannel(object):
     """A channel: fields of channel_announcement are in .fields, optional updates are in .updates_fields, which can be None if there has been no channel update."""
@@ -71,7 +76,8 @@ class GossmapChannel(object):
         self.updates_fields[direction] = fields
         self.updates_offset = off
 
-        half = GossmapHalfchannel(fields['timestamp'],
+        half = GossmapHalfchannel(self, direction,
+                                  fields['timestamp'],
                                   fields['cltv_expiry_delta'],
                                   fields['htlc_minimum_msat'],
                                   fields.get('htlc_maximum_msat', None),
@@ -85,6 +91,9 @@ class GossmapChannel(object):
             raise ValueError("direction can only be 0 or 1")
         return self.half_channels[direction]
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "GossmapChannel[{}]".format(str(self.scid))
+
 
 class GossmapNodeId(object):
     def __init__(self, buf: bytes):
@@ -105,7 +114,7 @@ class GossmapNodeId(object):
         return self.nodeid.__hash__()
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return "GossmapNodeId[0x{}]".format(self.nodeid.hex())
+        return "GossmapNodeId[{}]".format(self.nodeid.hex())
 
     def from_str(self, s: str):
         if s.startswith('0x'):
@@ -126,6 +135,9 @@ class GossmapNode(object):
         self.channels = []
         self.node_id = node_id
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "GossmapNode[{}]".format(self.node_id.nodeid.hex())
+
 
 class Gossmap(object):
     """Class to represent the gossip map of the network"""
diff --git a/contrib/pyln-proto/pyln/proto/primitives.py b/contrib/pyln-proto/pyln/proto/primitives.py
index 151424b86..d9deb6a9c 100644
--- a/contrib/pyln-proto/pyln/proto/primitives.py
+++ b/contrib/pyln-proto/pyln/proto/primitives.py
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ class ShortChannelId(object):
     def __hash__(self):
         return self.to_int().__hash__()
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "ShortChannelId[{}]".format(str(self))
+
 
 class Secret(object):
     def __init__(self, data: bytes) -> None: