dataclasses: Add the field type to Field repr

[ericvsmith]

BPO	33517
Nosy	@ericvsmith, @ned-deily, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-33517: dataclasses: Add the field type to Field repr #6858 [3.7] bpo-33517: dataclasses: Add the field type to Field repr (GH-6858) #6859

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[ericvsmith]

With the recent (and ongoing) change to string annotations, it's no longer obvious what the type of a field is (normal, ClassVar, or InitVar).

I propose exposing the heretofore undocumented _field_type to the repr. Instead of writing it directly, I'm going to make it say one of:

_field_type=_FIELD
_field_type=_FIELD_CLASSVAR
_field_type=_FIELD_INITVAR

This is because it's an object reference, and would otherwise look like:

_field_type=<object object at 0x10cc5f1f0>

Which is all but useless.

[ericvsmith]

New changeset 01abc6e by Eric V. Smith in branch 'master':
bpo-33517: dataclasses: Add the field type to Field repr (GH-6858)
01abc6e

[miss-islington]

New changeset 5c7e079 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-33517: dataclasses: Add the field type to Field repr (GH-6858)
5c7e079