Message 336128 - Python tracker

Message336128

Author	rhettinger
Recipients	Windson Yang, Zahash Z, matrixise, remi.lapeyre, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2019-02-20.17:26:46
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> It has not yet been decided whether to expose the content > of the queue in its repr at all. There is no public API for > accessing the content of the queue without removing items > from the queue, and I think it is intentional. I agree with Serhiy. Let's close this feature request. It doesn't make sense for queues and is at odds with their design and intended uses. There are a number of places where making a less opaque repr is helpful, but iterators and queues have a temporal aspect where this doesn't make sense.

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> It has not yet been decided whether to expose the content
> of the queue in its repr at all. There is no public API for 
> accessing the content of the queue without removing items 
> from the queue, and I think it is intentional.

I agree with Serhiy.

Let's close this feature request.  It doesn't make sense for queues and is at odds with their design and intended uses.

There are a number of places where making a less opaque repr is helpful, but iterators and queues have a temporal aspect where this doesn't make sense.

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