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.. XXX document all delegations to __special__ methods
.. _built-in-funcs:
Built-in Functions
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.. function:: repr(object)
Return a string containing a printable representation of an object. This is the
same value yielded by conversions (reverse quotes). It is sometimes useful to be
able to access this operation as an ordinary function. For many types, this
function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an object with the
same value when passed to :func:`eval`.
Return a string containing a printable representation of an object. For many
types, this function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an
object with the same value when passed to :func:`eval`, otherwise the
representation is a string enclosed in angle brackets that contains the name
of the type of the object together with additional information often
including the name and address of the object. A class can control what this
function returns for its instances by defining a :meth:`__repr__` method.
.. function:: reversed(seq)