From 81f331783cbf4ed4deaf76ca53daa4b617ed7e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael W. Hudson" <mwh@python.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:19:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] backport gvanrossum's checkin of     revision 1.57 of pdb.py

date: 2002/09/10 21:57:14;  author: gvanrossum;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -1
At Jim Fulton's request, increase the maxstring value of _saferepr to
a more reasonable value.

Backport candidate.
---
 Lib/pdb.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 246c6da97ce5..1f3c1d47eee7 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"]
 
-- 
2.47.3