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Documentation outdated for printline() #32
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Commit 4251e79 seems to have added the strline() function for getting string representations as a replacement for printline(file=None).
Documentation for SE3 still suggests printline() will output a string when supplied with file=None:
Documentation for the new strline() function also doesn't seem to have been built.
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jhavl commentedon Oct 27, 2021
Thanks for noticing that, the docs seem to be out of date on Github pages. I'll get those rebuilt with the next pip release
petercorke commentedon Nov 2, 2021
I've changed this stuff a lot, used to be all done by printline. Are these the right primitives?
btalb commentedon Nov 11, 2021
I haven't noticed a strong convention in the Python community for "making print flexible enough to meet user needs". There's the extendable custom string formatting, but that looks like it may be a deep rabbit hole.
If it was me, my approach would be maximise flexibility for users by minimising work done here:
set_printoptions()to support changing the default string representation globally / in contexts usingwith(optional)With the flexibility of maybe swapping out 1 with custom string formatting if you feel the need in the future.
petercorke commentedon Jul 27, 2026
Checkout PR #200 which separates printing from stringifying.