[merge] doc: coding standards for repr methods

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Michael Hudson
<michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>> Patch says it all, I think.  I have been doing this in some places and
>> think it is very useful.
>
> Do you think it's worth adding something about how the strings returned by
> __repr__ shouldn't be more than a couple of hundred bytes long, if you agree
> with me that this is a good idea?  I've had some irritating experiences
> lately with repr strings that are a few kb long...

I don't know if I'd require an absolute guarantee it will never be
long but it's a good thing to continue.  I'll do it as a tweak if a
core dev will approve it.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>