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IPython 0.7.3 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. <snip> In [8]: a = range(1000) In [9]: a? Type: list Base Class: <type 'list'> String Form: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 <...> 0, 981, 98 2, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994, 995, 996, 997, 998, 999] Namespace: Interactive Length: 1000 Docstring: list() -> new list list(sequence) -> new list initialized from sequence's items *Please note that there is an extra "0" after "**26 <...>", which doesn't appear for the followling cases:* In [10]: b = range(100) In [11]: b? Type: list Base Class: <type 'list'> String Form: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 <...> , 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99] <snip> In [12]: c = range(10000) In [13]: c? Type: list Base Class: <type 'list'> String Form: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 <...> , 9984, 99 85, 9986, 9987, 9988, 9989, 9990, 9991, 9992, 9993, 9994, 9995, 9996, 9997, 9998, 9999] <snip> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list