On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Feb 27, 2012, at 05:44 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:

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Doctest needs reliable repr's more than reversable repr's, and you can create them using that.  You'll still get a lot of strings, which suck... but if you are committed to doctest then maybe better to provide good __repr__ methods on your custom objects!

+1 even if you don't use doctests!  I can't tell you how many times adding a useful repr has vastly improved debugging.  I urge everyone to flesh out your reprs with a little bit of useful information so you can quickly identify your instances at a pdb prompt.

Since this question came up recently, what do you think of adding some more helpers to reprlib to make this even easier to do? I know I just added some utility functions to PulpDist [1] to avoid reinventing that particular wheel for each of my class definitions. Cheers, Nick. [1] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=pulpdist.git;a=blob;f=src/pulpdist/core/u... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia