[issue39949] truncating match in regular expression match objects repr

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

There was a discussion in issue40984 that the repr must be eval-able. I don't feel very strongly about this, mainly because I don't think anyone ever does eval(repr(some_regex)). I'd be slightly sympathetic to wanting the eval to fail if the repr had to truncate its output, instead of succeeding because the string was still a valid, but different, regex.

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