[Python-ideas] Fwd: Re: Unambiguous repr for recursive objects

[Guido van Rossum]

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From: Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com>
To: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:33:37 -0700
Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Unambiguous repr for recursive objects

I disagree. We should not take this guideline too literally. The dots are
easily understood and nobody has been fooled by a list containing an
ellipsis yet. (Also, isn't the repr of an ellipsis the string 'Ellipsis'?)

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