Sounds good to me. It'll make OrderedDict look much nicer at the REPL.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:21 AM Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not sure what our repr change policy is, as there is a
> back-compatibility issue but I remember there being changes.


Given the way different Python prompts feel free to change reprs, I always
understood the repr to have no compatibility guarantees.


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:31 AM David Mertz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Repr changes are likely to break doctests, at least. That's not
> necessarily an absolute "no", but it does raise the bar.
>

Breaking doctests is somewhat annoying, but I understand that to be more
about verifying the accuracy of documentation than verifying the
correctness of code. It's handy for following TDD, but that's during the
initial development and a changed repr won't interfere.
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