Newbie string questions

[Matty Sarro]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it. I was wondering why %r was always
showing things enclosed in single-quotes.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Guidry <chris at theguidrys.us> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote:
>> can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now
>> what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do? I can't find it in the
>> documentation anywhere.
>
> Matty, %r in a format string is very much like %s.  %s calls str(your_object) in order to produce the resulting string.  %r calls repr(your_object).  Generally, you'd want to use %s for strings that will surface to a user, while %r is great for debugging and logging.
>
> Also, if you haven't come across repr(), you should be able to find that in the docs; it's also considered good practice to overload repr() in your own classes in order to provide a useful representation for your objects.
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