guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg 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 guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 101715 0700 pythondev string representation range 30