Ram Rachum added the comment: My impression is that the `__repr__` method of any object is intended to describe that object, hopefully in a succinct way, possibly in a REPL-friendly way (like `list.__repr__` for example) but if not then at least human-friendly. This is for easy introspection. When I come across a Signature object in the shell, I want to immediately get a good feel for what it contains without exploring `vars(sig)` manully.
If you have a `Signature` object, why not have its `__repr__` return something like '<Signature f: alpha, beta=3, *args, **kwargs>`? This would do an awesome job at helping me understand what kind of signature object I'm looking at. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20378> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
