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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 14:21:52 CET 2006

Armin Rigo wrote:

Indeed, I don't foresee any place where it would help apart from the repr of the iterators, which is precisely what I'm aiming at. The alternative here would be a kind of "smart" global function that knows about many built-in iterator types and is able to fish for the data inside automatically (but this hits problems of data structures being private). I thought that getitemcue would be a less dirty solution. I really think a better repr would be generally helpful, and I cannot think of a 3rd solution at the moment... (Ideas welcome!)

Do they really need anything more sophisticated than:

def repr(self): return "%s(%r)" % (type(self).name, self._subiter)

(modulo changes in the format of arguments, naturally. This simple one would work for things like enumerate and reversed, though)

If the subiterators themselves have decent repr methods, the top-level repr should also look reasonable.

Cheers, Nick.

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