[IPython-dev] %r vs %rep

[Ville M. Vainio]

On 9/7/07, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd still like to know what's going on with the above, since the docstring says
>
>     Place a string version of last input to the next input prompt. Allows you
>     to create elaborate command lines without using copy-paste::
>
> but it seems to put the output instead.  Am I confused?

No, the documentation is buggy. It places the string version of _,
i.e. last *result* on the line. I'll fix the doc.

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