[issue40984] re.compile's repr truncates patterns at 199 characters

Quentin Wenger added the comment: Note: it actually truncates at 200 characters, counting the initial quote of the argument's repr. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40984] re.compile's repr truncates patterns at 199 characters

New submission from Quentin Wenger : This seems somewhat arbitrary and yields unusable results, going against the doc: > repr(object) > Return a string containing a printable representation of an object. For many > types, this function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an