Ezio Melotti added the comment: #13592 is indeed the issue I was thinking about, but apparently that's about _sre.SRE_Pattern, so it's not the same thing.
> Just showing group(0) should be helpful. Often the interesting group is group(1), so showing only group(0) seems a bit arbitrary. > And perhaps the number of groups. If we show only group(0), this might be useful as an indication that there are(n't) other groups. > If a string is really long, we can truncate it like reprlib does. That's certainly an option. FWIW I don't usually care about the start/end, and, if included, these values could be included as span=(3,12). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17087> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
