[Python-Dev] PyObject_REPR()

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 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.

I'm still in favour of removing it. If you need it in debugging code,
writing PyObject_AsString(PyObject_Repr(o)) doesn't seem too hard,
IMO. If you write it so often that it hurts, you can put it at the
top of your file (and perhaps also give it a shorter name, such as
P(o)).

Nobody but you seemed to know about its existence, and, given that
it is flawed, neither its definition nor its use belong into Python
(IMO, of course).

Regards,
Martin