Abbreviated repr

[Ryan McCampbell]

This is a suggestion. I think it would be nice if the __repr__ of all bs4 elements was abbreviated beyond a certain size, kind of like how numpy abbreviates large arrays. This would be really useful for interactive use when you don't want to accidentally print an entire html page. However the __str__ should be kept unabbreviated so explicit print()s will still work as they do now. 

[David Goldsmith]

+1 (Surprised this isn't already the behavior.)

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:47 AM Ryan McCampbell <rmccam...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is a suggestion. I think it would be nice if the __repr__ of all bs4 elements was abbreviated beyond a certain size, kind of like how numpy abbreviates large arrays. This would be really useful for interactive use when you don't want to accidentally print an entire html page. However the __str__ should be kept unabbreviated so explicit print()s will still work as they do now. 

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