[Python-ideas] Have REPL print less by default

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Apr 20 13:46:21 EDT 2016


On 4/20/2016 6:39 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 4/19/2016 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> I mostly agree with what you say, but I would like to see one change to
>>> the default sys.excepthook: large numbers of *identical* traceback lines
>>> (as you often get with recursion errors) should be collapsed. For
>>> example:
>>
>>
>> Tracebacks produce *pairs* of lines: the location and the line itself.
>
> Not always, as Steven's example shows. For example:
>
> def fun():
>     fun()
>
> fun()
>
> Does that.

The above produces pairs of lines, so I do not understand your point.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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