[Biopython-dev] Rethinking Seq objects

[Frédéric Sohm]

>>     - add a new function Seq.short() for example which would behave like the
>>       actual str(Seq).
>
>Actually, if this is just for programmer/debugging use, it would be
>much better for this behavior to be in repr.

personally I would not change repr, as it should returns a string which can be
used with the built-in eval(). But it is true this can make the repr string very
long.

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