On Apr 2, 2020, at 13:35, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <
arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
But nobody’s mentioned implementation here. Nobody’s saying you can’t have this because it would be too hard to implement.
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That’s not about implementation; that’s about the key idea in your proposal.
Ah ok i misunderstood.
Well i meant that there was no known module example if the feature did not exist yet.
Show us a module that you’d like to have a custom repr, and show us what you’d like that custom repr to be, and show us that it looks good in other contexts (a traceback, printing out sys.modules, etc.), or why it’s so good in the REPL that it overcomes the cost of being less good in those contexts. You may well have examples that are good enough. But if you don’t show us your examples, we can only use our own imagination, and obviously none of us are imagining anything nearly good enough to be worth it. Which is our failure, not yours—but you want this implemented, and if nobody backs your proposal because nobody imagines how useful it would be, you’re not going to get it.
Well it's about having the ability to change the default <'long line where module is found'>.
I find it ugly as the default representation of a package. If it's the default, maybe it can be changed/customised.
Same spirit like the repr of an object is <__main__.A object at 0x0048E4D8>, but it can be customised.