[docs] [issue9842] Document ... used in recursive repr of containers
Raymond Hettinger
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Oct 22 17:18:51 EDT 2017
Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:
Since the appearance of reprs is not guaranteed. I don't think this should be documented (because doing so makes it a guaranteed behavior). In fact, the appearance has changed over time from ... to [...] in and may change at some point to <...> so that it can't be confused with an actual Ellipsis object. At best this should be a FAQ entry or we can defer to behaviors that are documented and guaranteed (such as reprlib.recursive_repr() and its default fillvalue).
I concur with David Murray that the Ellipsis object should be indexed and cross-referenced.
----------
nosy: +rhettinger
_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue9842>
_______________________________________
More information about the docs
mailing list