Re: [Python-ideas] Repr of lambda

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > Every python object has an object identity, and the way to get it is with > the id() function. The id is also part of the default object repr, but given > that some, but only some objects have the id in their repr, it's

Re: [Python-ideas] Repr of lambda

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Barry wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2017, at 06:57, Chris Barker wrote: > > > > in theory, the "goal" is for eval(repr(obj)) to return an equivalent > object > > Is that really was the goal of repr? I think so -- see the

Re: [Python-ideas] Allow star unpacking within an slice expression

I didn't think of this when we were discussing 448. I ran into this today, so I agree with you that it would be nice to have this. Best, Neil On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:02:09 AM UTC-5, Eric Wieser wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been thinking about the * unpacking operator while writing some

Re: [Python-ideas] Repr of lambda

Could we call it "help"? Maybe add some beef to what's already there... >>> help(lambda x,y,*args: x) Help on function in module __main__: lambda x, y, *args On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Barry wrote: > > > > On 21 Dec 2017, at 06:57, Chris Barker

Re: [Python-ideas] Repr of lambda

> On 21 Dec 2017, at 06:57, Chris Barker wrote: > > in theory, the "goal" is for eval(repr(obj)) to return an equivelent object Is that really was the goal of repr? If true then we would not need pickle. I have always assumed that repr of simple things aims to