Raymond Hettinger added the comment: See http://bugs.python.org/issue30477 for why I think this shouldn't be done. In short, the IndexError may be part of control flow (looping over successive matches) rather than an error (this patch adds a time/space cost with no benefit in those cases). The repr itself may be large resulting in an unusable error message. The repr may be expensive to compute for some objects.
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