On the bug tracker, there is a proposal to enhance range objects so that printing them will display a snapshot of the values included, including the end points. For example:
print(range(10)) currently displays "range(10)". The proposal is for the __str__ method to instead return "<range object [0, 1, ..., 8, 9]>". https://bugs.python.org/issue35200 print(range(2, 200, 3)) would display <range object [2, 5, ..., 194, 197]> Note that the original proposal was for range objects' __repr__ to display this behaviour. But given the loss of eval(repr(obj)) round tripping, and the risk of breaking backwards compatibility, it was decided that isn't acceptable but using the same display for __str__ (and hence produced by print) would be nearly as useful but without the downsides. The developer who proposed the feature, Julien, now wants to reject the feature request. I think it is still a useful feature for range objects. What do others think? Is this worth re-opening? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
