[Python-ideas] Have REPL print less by default

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

[...]
> which then gives tracebacks like this:
>
>
> py> sys.setrecursionlimit(200)
> py> a = fact(10000)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 3, in fact
>   [...repeat previous line 197 times...]
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in fact
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison
>

Something like this would also make sense (although not be quite as
useful) when there is infinite recursion. But it should recognize a
block of several lines repeating.

-Koos