[Python-Dev] string representation of range in 3.0

Wed Apr 16 15:54:38 CEST 2008

On 16-Apr-08, at 9:37 AM, Isaac Morland wrote:
> On 2008年4月16日, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On 16/04/2008, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> 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.
>>>> I quite like this. But as a non-beginner, I'll freely admit that my
>> intuitions are suspect :-)
>> I like this too. For iterators, though, would you always show the 
> next
> couple of elements? The values "contained in" the iterator will 
> change as
> the iterator iterates. Alternatively, the representation could be
> "frozen" to reflect the values originally pending in the iterator, but
> then the representation wouldn't show anything about the current 
> state of
> the iterator.
So would you mean something like:
<generator object <__main__.Foo instance at 0x835d0>, <__main__.Foo 
instance at 0x83620>, ...>
Or maybe:
<generator <__main__.Foo instance at 0x835d0>, <__main__.Foo instance 
at 0x83620>, ... >
While I agree in theory, I'm not sure I like the looks of it in 
practise.