'%r' docs

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:24:29PM +0200, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> To my pleasing surprice I discovered (from some python code, not
> mine) that '%s'%(repr(obj)) has shorter form '%r'%(obj).
> 
> Though I scanned Python 2.1 docs in order to find some backing for this
> discovery, I found non.
>  
> So, is this undocumented feature (and therefore may disappear in
> future??)? Or could some one point out where are the fancy output formats
> documented beside in the Tutorial.

   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq-strings.html

Oleg.
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