R. David Murray added the comment: This is by design. The short option was introduced to use in specific asserts (assertDictEqual and assertMultilineEqual; see 8b8701551253). These were later enhanced to do an even better job of abbreviating the output usefully, but the short option on safe_repr was not removed even though it is no longer used, for backward compatibility reasons.
If you would like for there to be a way to toggle safe_repr's default, that would be a new feature request, and seems like a reasononable feature to me. The new feature should incorporate a way to set _MAX_LENGTH as well. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray type: behavior -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27432> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
