On 16-Apr-08, at 9:37 AM, Isaac Morland wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Paul Moore wrote: >> On 16/04/2008, Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What about the less confusing and more readily generalizable: >>> <range object 0, 1, ..., 9> >>> >>> It would also be helpful IMHO to use this kind of repr for most >>> built-in >>> iterators and iterables, instead of their mosty-useless default >>> repr. >> >> I quite like this. But as a non-beginner, I'll freely admit that my >> intuitions are suspect :-) > > I like this too. For iterators, though, would you always show the > next > couple of elements? The values "contained in" the iterator will > change as > the iterator iterates. Alternatively, the representation could be > "frozen" to reflect the values originally pending in the iterator, but > then the representation wouldn't show anything about the current > state of > the iterator. So would you mean something like: <generator object <__main__.Foo instance at 0x835d0>, <__main__.Foo instance at 0x83620>, ...> Or maybe: <generator <__main__.Foo instance at 0x835d0>, <__main__.Foo instance at 0x83620>, ... >
While I agree in theory, I'm not sure I like the looks of it in practise. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
