If I understand correctly, you'd like str(range(10)) to return "<range object [1, 2, ..., 8, 9]>"?

I'm really unconfortable doing this, for me __str__ is here to return an “informal or nicely printable string representation of an object", not a convoluted "<{type(object)} object ...>" notation.

I agree with you, the [0, 1, ..., 8, 9] notation is too confusing with the repr of a list, that's why I proposed the "0, 1, ..., 8, 9" which looks nice.