improved behavior of FileLinks.__repr__ to be more like the behvior of _repr_html_

IPython/lib/display.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 b' Authors : MinRK, gregcaporaso'
 """
 
 from os import walk
-from os.path import exists, isfile, splitext, abspath
+from os.path import exists, isfile, splitext, abspath, join
 
 
 class YouTubeVideo(object):
@@ -91,7 +91,7 b' class FileLink(object):'
         return self._format_path()
     
     def __repr__(self):
-        """return path to file
+        """return absolute path to file
         """
         return abspath(self.path)
         
@@ -149,3 +149,17 b' class FileLinks(FileLink):'
                                                    self.html_link_str % (fp,fn),
                                                    self.result_html_suffix]))
         return '\n'.join(result_entries)
+    
+    def __repr__(self):
+        """return newline-separated absolute paths
+        """
+        result_entries = []
+        for root, dirs, files in walk(self.path):
+            for fn in files:
+                fp = abspath(join(root,fn))
+                # if all files are being included, or fp has a suffix
+                # that is in included_suffix, create a link to fp
+                if self.included_suffixes == None or \
+                   splitext(fn)[1] in self.included_suffixes:
+                    result_entries.append(fp)
+        return '\n'.join(result_entries)
  No newline at end of file