[Python-ideas] Re: __repr__ helper(s) in reprlib

2020-01-23 Thread Neil Girdhar
I really like this feature suggestion and I would definitely use it if it were available. It might be easiest to have the repr helper do as much as it can, but give the user the flexibility to override things with varying levels of precision. For example: def kwargs(obj, keys: Opti

[Python-ideas] Re: Suggestion for language addition

2020-01-23 Thread Neil Girdhar
On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 7:54:03 PM UTC-5, Jan Bakuwel wrote: > > Hi Guido, > > On 4/12/19 1:06 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I was playing the devil's advocate in jest. There is no way this will > > be added to Python, for a large variety of sociological and software > > engineering

[Python-ideas] Re: addition of "nameof" operator

2020-01-23 Thread Johan Vergeer
Thanks everyone for your responses. I would like to take all the information you gave me and do some research on it. I'll try to get it done this weekend or beginning of next week. ___ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe

[Python-ideas] pickle.reduce and deconstruct

2020-01-23 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
Pickling uses an extensible protocol that lets any class determine how its instances can be deconstructed and reconstructed. Both `pickle` and `copy` use this protocol, but it could be useful more generally. Unfortunately, to use it more generally requires relying on undocumented details. I thin