Script debugger stalls on big objects

[klayoutmatthias]

Problem: the debugger will display the object's "to_s" values in the variable list. Some objects (e.g. huge polygons) deliver very long strings. Generating and showing these strings will stall the debugger.

Solution is to use "repr"/"inspect" for display and stop aliasing "to_s" to "inspect" (Ruby) or "repr" (Python).

[thomaslima]

Hello @klayoutmatthias .

I noticed a change in behavior in python's repr in my scripts and traced back to this issue. I am not sure I understand why we changed repr for python as well. Now instead of showing "(1,2)" it shows "<klayout.dbcore.Point object at 0x110237dc0>", which is much longer. Is that intentional?

Is there any chance we can revert the repr behavior?