[Python-ideas] Have REPL print less by default

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

Strange. for me it produces a repeating single line. Tried both on
2.7.6. and 3.5.1. Probably not worth discussing, though.

-Koos