Steven D'Aprano added the comment: A function like this often gets called to truncate lots of lines. Unfortunately for many use-cases, the part truncated is the most significant part of the line. E.g.:
Scanning file: /home/fred/documents/datafil... /home/fred/documents/datafil... /home/fred/documents/datafil... /home/fred/documents/datafil... It's often better in cases like this to truncate in the middle: Scanning file: /home/fred/doc...datafile01.txt /home/fred/doc...datafile02.txt /home/fred/doc...datafile03.txt /home/fred/doc...datafile04.txt (I believe Mac OS-X routinely truncates long lines in the middle in this way.) Perhaps there could be an argument controlling where to truncate (left, right or centre). A good use-case for the new Enums, perhaps? :-) ---------- nosy: +stevenjd _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18585> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
