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0 pointsraldi11y ago0 comments

Doesn't seem like a showstopper to me; just fall back to current behavior if str() fails or takes too long, and truncate if it's too verbose.

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How you define "too long" and "too verbose"?

raldiOP11y ago

Keep a running tally of time spent stringifying. If it passes 1000 msec over the entire life of the program, disable the feature.

As for length, maybe 100 chars? I think that's around what repr() often uses.

> Simple is better than complex.

I think Python exceptions are verbose enough, not necessary to make it more verbose, more complicated.

Can str() call into a C extension that then loops forever?

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