"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:15 AM, 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. | | We can't do this for iterators, since you can't print the values | without consuming the iterator. Printing something shouldn't have a | side effect on it. But for iterables (e.g. dict views) it should work | fine, and if others can agree with this I'd be happy to accept | patches.
Assuming we are discussing the output of str() rather that repr(), I think we should give Armin's idea a try for iterables that don't get the full display (as with lists, etc) but can harmlessly produce some values. _______________________________________________ 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
