From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: At Jim Fulton's request, increase the maxstring value of _saferepr to
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4146
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef1b41ba0a80fb38904ea00669c769cd9556b051;p=python

At Jim Fulton's request, increase the maxstring value of _saferepr to
a more reasonable value.

Backport candidate.
---

diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 2a8a9e3fd5..4b0516d28a 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -8,10 +8,16 @@ import sys
 import linecache
 import cmd
 import bdb
-from repr import repr as _saferepr
+from repr import Repr
 import os
 import re
 
+# Create a custom safe Repr instance and increase its maxstring.
+# The default of 30 truncates error messages too easily.
+_repr = Repr()
+_repr.maxstring = 200
+_saferepr = _repr.repr
+
 __all__ = ["run", "pm", "Pdb", "runeval", "runctx", "runcall", "set_trace",
            "post_mortem", "help"]