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Author rhettinger
Recipients Bernat Gabor, remi.lapeyre, rhettinger
Date 2020-07-26.17:50:51
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I suggest taking this to Python ideas.  While there is a legitimate concern about large objects in a Variable View, the idea impacts long-standing core APIs.  Accordingly, it needs to be thought through, become better specified, and be evaluated against alternatives.  If the language impact is pervasive, it would likely need a PEP as well.

Some questions immediately come to mind:

* Would the existing standard and third party libraries need to recode every __repr__ or __str__ implementation for every container that has ever been written?  Would that include C code as well?

* It there something this limit parameter could do that couldn't already be achieved with __format__()?

* Should limits be a responsibility of individual classes or it is a debugger responsibility?  On the one hand, it is hard to see how a debugger could implement this without blind truncation; on the other hand, I don't think other languages make a similar inversion of responsibility.

* How would the parameter be accessed via the !r and !s codes in f-strings?

* How easy or hard would this be to implement for typical classes, lists for example?

* What is meant by "max number of symbols we want to evaluate"?  Would the repr for ['x'*1_000_000] count as one symbol or as one million?

* For tree-like structures (JSON for example), does a symbol limit make sense?  Wouldn't you want a depth limit instead.

* Would some variant of "..." be added to indicate that limits were applied and to prevent someone for accidentally running eval() on the output?
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