IIRC there's a limited buffer used for the formatting. Also, if a dynamically created type name is 1000000 characters long I'd rather see it truncated than blow up my shell window.
On Friday, February 20, 2015, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 02/20/2015 09:05 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > Some messages (only in C) truncate actual type name (%.50s, %.80s, > > %.200s, %.500s). Should type name be truncated at all and for how > limit? > > > > > > I assume this is over some worry of string size blowing out memory > > allocation or something? If someone can show that's an actual worry then > > fine, otherwise I say don't truncate. > > I asked about this years ago, and was told it was in case the type name > pointer was bad, and to limit the amount of garbage printed. Whether > that's an actual problem or not, I can't say. It seems more likely that > you'd get a segfault, but maybe if it was pointing to reused memory it > could be useful. > > Eric. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org <javascript:;> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (on iPad)
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