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

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 27.12.15 19:16, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I really feel you all are overworrying and overthinking this. A downside
> to me is that <...> isn't clear about what the type of the object is.
> The use case here is not sophisticated users, it's beginners who have
> accidentally managed to create a recursive list or dict. They have most
> likely not even encountered Ellipsis objects yet. There's nothing
> clearer than the current notation to help them see that they've done
> something unusual.

My second alternative was to use full object.__repr__. E.g. <list object 
at 0xb7111498>. Or, if this is considered too long, shorter form: 
<list>. Or, as Georg suggested, use the word "recursive" for clearness: 
<recursive>. Or combine type name and the word "recursive":
<recursive list>.