text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg wed apr 16 2008 116 pm terry reedy wrote guido van rossum wrote message newsca471dc20804160757u6a0257c8rff1ab5f68b5fc698mailgmailcom wed apr 16 2008 315 armin rigo wrote less confusing readily generalizable would also helpful imho use kind repr builtin iterators iterables instead mostyuseless default repr cant iterators since cant print values without consuming iterator printing something shouldnt side effect iterables eg dict views work fine others agree id happy accept patches assuming discussing output str rather repr think give armins idea try iterables dont get full display lists etc harmlessly produce values str note interactive prompt uses repr display values guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 105244 0700 pythondev string representation range 30