The REPL is too Rich

[jgarte]

Hi,

Is there a way to display less information at the REPL?

For example, the REPL displays a ton of information for a dataframe (Python).

In other words, it doesn't do the usual that a Pythonista would expect working with pdb.

Also, it doesn't look like the p command works...

I get a weird thread message in the minibuffer when I try to use p.

WDYT

[svaante]

Hello!

AFAIK debugpy does not use pdb internally, and all things entered in the repl (which are not captured by dape as dape-repl-commands) are given to an "normal" python repl.

Regarding variable information in repl dape-variable-auto-expand-alist controls how many levels are automatically expanded.

;; No auto expand
(setopt  dape-variable-auto-expand-alist nil)

That setting might be preferable.

[jgarte]

I just want to see the contents of the dataframe simply in that window 🙃 🦆 Imagine that I have a dataframe with 500 rows.

[jgarte]

I guess printing the dataframe in *dape-repl* and thenf ull screening it is one way but it's infortunate that I can't easily see the contents of a medium sized/smallish (100 rows) dataframe in the variables pane *dape-info Scope* buffer...

[jgarte]

That setting might be preferable.

;; No auto expand
(setopt  dape-variable-auto-expand-alist nil)

@svaante What do you think if this setting were the default?

[zhenhua-wang]

The trick I used is to type "print(test_df)", insead of "test_df" in REPL. This only shows the content of the variable. With that being said, I also would like to have this (showing content only) as the default behavior.

[svaante]

How do you guys feel about the other contexts? Like watch (watch buffer), hover (eldoc)? Which it current also auto expands one level for?

[svaante]

Also might be an idea to skip add a custom for skipping type printing of vars, to remove some noise.

[svaante]

Oh that all ready exists, with dape-info-variable-table-row-config. It's been a while since that was implemented.

(setopt dape-info-variable-table-row-config '((name . 0) (value . 0)))

Will hide type info from the variable print.