[Python-ideas] reprs of recursive datastructures.

Mike Graham mikegraham at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 21:51:21 CEST 2012


With the Python 3 loosening of where ... can occur, this somewhat
suboptimal behaviour occurs

>>> x = []
>>> x.append(x)
>>> x
[[...]]
>>> eval(repr(x))
[[Ellipsis]]

Is this something that can be improved? Is it something worth improving?

Mike



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