The repr Module

The repr module provides a version of the built-in repr function, with limits on most sizes (string lengths, recursion, etc). Example 4-17 shows the module in use.

Example 4-17. Using the repr Module

File: repr-example-1.py # note: this overrides the built-in 'repr' function from repr import repr # an annoyingly recursive data structure data = ( "X" * 100000, ) data = [data] data.append(data) print repr(data) [('XXXXXXXXXXXX...XXXXXXXXXXXXX',), [('XXXXXXXXXXXX...XXXXXXXXXX XXX',), [('XXXXXXXXXXXX...XXXXXXXXXXXXX',), [('XXXXXXXXXXXX...XX XXXXXXXXXXX',), [('XXXXXXXXXXXX...XXXXXXXXXXXXX',), [(...), [... ]]]]]]]