In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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:*
This 0 is the last digit of `980`. If the string form is very long the
string itself is shortened by leaving out the middle part. It's
irrelevant which object it was before the conversion to a string.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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