It's intended as an internal debugging API. I find it very convenient for adding with a printf() here and there, which is how it got added long ago. It should really have a comment mentioning that it leaks the repr object, and starting with an _ wouldn't be bad either.
Jeremy On 4/11/06, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/11/06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It strikes me that it should not be used, or maybe renamed to > > > _PyObject_REPR. > > > Should removing or renaming it be done in 2.5 or in Py3K? > > > > Since it is intrinsically buggy, I would support removal in Py2.5 > > +1 on removal. Google only turned up a handleful of uses that I saw. > > n > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jeremy%40alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
