reprlib.Repr.__init__ should accept arguments

[remilapeyre]

BPO	40995
Nosy	@remilapeyre
PRs	bpo-40995: reprlib.Repr attributes can be overriden in __init__() #20925

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labels = ['type-bug', 'library', '3.10']
title = 'reprlib.Repr.__init__ should accept arguments'
updated_at = <Date 2020-06-16.23:13:25.734>
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[remilapeyre]

reprlib.Repr does not accept arguments for the moment so setting its attributes must be done in multiple steps:

import reprlib
r = reprlib.Repr()
r.maxstring = 10
r.maxset = 4
r.repr(...)

It would be more user-friendly to be able to do:

import reprlib
r = reprlib.Repr(maxstring=10, maxset=4)
r.repr(...)

[gvanrossum]

Looks like this was implemented by #94343.

[gvanrossum]

(I meant #94581.)