On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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.
Why only str()? Note that the interactive prompt uses repr() to display values. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
