> Some of the names and comments are confusing, I've commented below.
> Other than that it looks good to me.
>> def __init__(self, default_str=str,
>> recursive_str=lambda obj, dstr: "..."):
>
> What are the arguments to default_str?
Ah, good. I should document that default_str must be able to take any
object and return a string.
> dstr is not a very explanatory name, maybe deep_str would be better.
Ok, I'll change this.
>> def __deepstr(self, obj, _seen):
>
> I would call it 'seen', it isn't an attribute so why the _ ?
Good point. Why the heck did I do that? Thanks for catching that.
>> def register(self, handler):
>> """register: (object (object -> string) -> string or None)
>
> Maybe it's just me but I don't have a clue what 'object (object ->
> string)' is trying to convey.
Alan intepreted it the way I intended:
> register takes a handler argument that should be a callable object which
> in turn takes a stringlike argument and returns either a string or None
I should, though, rephrase the signature as:
register: object str_function -> string or None
to be more readable. Separately, I can then define that a 'str_function'
is a callable that takes anything and turns it into a string.
Thanks Alan and Kent!
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