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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 14:44:45 CET 2006

Armin Rigo wrote:

Hi Nick,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:21:52PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: 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) My goal here is not primarily to help debugging, but to help playing around at the interactive command-line. Python's command-line should not be dismissed as "useless for real programmers"; I definitely use it all the time to try things out. It would be nicer if all these iterators I'm not familiar with would give me a hint about what they actually return, instead of:

itertools.count(17) count(17) # yes, thank you, not very helpful enumerate("spam") enumerate("spam") # with your proposed extension -- not better However, if this kind of goal is considered "not serious enough" for adding a private special method, then I'm fine with trying out a fishing approach.

Ah, I see the use case now. You're right in thinking I was mainly considering the debugging element (and supporting even that would be an improvement on the current repr methods, which are just the 'type with instance ID' default repr).

In terms of "what does it do" though, I'd tend to actually iterate the thing:

Py> for x in enumerate("spam"): print x ... (0, 's') (1, 'p') (2, 'a') (3, 'm')

Cheers, Nick.

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