Improve truncated printing for list-like objects

[keviny2]

print_truncated() does not handle other list-like objects (e.g. numpy arrays), making for messy outputs for __repr__().

BiocUtils/src/biocutils/print_truncated.py

Lines 26 to 29 in e4d9f8b

	elif isinstance(x, list):
	return print_truncated_list(
	x, truncated_to=truncated_to, full_threshold=full_threshold
	)

Current behavior

When executing in a jupyter notebook, the output is not truncated:

import numpy as np
from biocframe import BiocFrame

bframe = BiocFrame(
    {
        "x": np.random.normal(size=40),
        "y": np.random.normal(size=40)
    }
)
bframe

>>
BiocFrame(data={'x': array([ 0.30948609, -1.38289079, -0.43285149,  0.37465808,  0.47068355,
        0.72958816, -1.99939489,  0.22849544, -0.15900403,  0.1183286 ,
       -0.12025139, -0.31011542,  0.2261699 , -1.23073433, -0.98790469,
        0.37100134,  1.11801526,  1.89313668, -0.72167481,  1.21427698]), 'y': array([-0.96331348,  0.90240032,  0.45289567,  0.74154537,  0.09252068,
       -0.30991981,  0.81609081, -0.21092948,  0.17191497,  0.01036059,
        0.21667765, -0.35905261, -0.53184703, -0.64036229,  0.25275972,
       -0.31644878, -0.57082027, -0.39594529,  2.26653958, -0.31656108])}, number_of_rows=20, column_names=['x', 'y'])

Proposed solution

As a start,

elif isinstance(x, (list, np.ndarray)):
    return print_truncated_list(
        list(x), truncated_to=truncated_to, full_threshold=full_threshold
    )

Question

Should we handle other list-like objects?

[jkanche]

or should we forward this to numpy's own __repr__ ?