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[Python-ideas] Repr of lambda

Eric Fahlgren ericfahlgren at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 17:23:59 EST 2017 
Could we call it "help"?  Maybe add some beef to what's already there...

>>> help(lambda x,y,*args: x)
Help on function <lambda> in module __main__:

<lambda> lambda x, y, *args


On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

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>
> > On 21 Dec 2017, at 06:57, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > in theory, the "goal" is for eval(repr(obj)) to return an equivelent
> object
>
> Is that really was the goal of repr? If true then we would not need pickle.
>
> I have always assumed that repr of simple things aims to represent them
> in just the way you would write them in python code. Repr of complex things
> represents the obj as a useful summary.
>
> Lamba seems to be in the complex end of things.
>
> In debug logs I am often very interested in object identity and use the
> 0x123 as one way to know. Removing the unique id would be a regression
> in my eyes.
>
> Maybe what you would like to have is an explain function that given any
> object tells you alll about it. help function does some of this I guess.
>
> Barry
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