[Python-Dev] PyObject_REPR() (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Apr 12 05:05:17 CEST 2006


It's intended as an internal debugging API. I find it very convenient for adding with a printf() here and there, which is how it got added long ago. It should really have a comment mentioning that it leaks the repr object, and starting with an _ wouldn't be bad either.

Jeremy

On 4/11/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/11/06, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote: > > > It strikes me that it should not be used, or maybe renamed to PyObjectREPR. > > Should removing or renaming it be done in 2.5 or in Py3K? > > Since it is intrinsically buggy, I would support removal in Py2.5

+1 on removal. Google only turned up a handleful of uses that I saw. n


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