Thanks Rémi, did not know about it. Played around with it, and is not entirely what we'd need here. That class still generates the long string repr, just truncates it afterwards. That is unless teh Repr implements custom formatting for the types, however the Repr would be the IDEs code, and that doesn't understand enough the user code to be able to tell what's a good short representation for it. This was the idea with adding it as a parameter to the repr function, that the user can customize/override the outcome depenending how many characters it has left to use up for repr.