8.19. repr — Alternate repr() implementation The repr module has
been renamed to reprlib in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will
automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0.
The repr module provides a means for producing object
representations with limits on the size of the resulting
strings. This is used in the Python debugger and may be useful
in other contexts as well. This module provides a class, an
instance, and a function: - Class which provides formatting
services useful in implementing functions similar to the built-
in repr(); size limits for different object types are added to
avoid the generation of representations which are excessively
long. - This is an instance of Repr which is used to provide the
repr() function described below. Changing the attributes of this
object will affect the size limits used by repr() and the Python
debugger. - This is the repr() method of aRepr. It returns a
string similar to that returned by the built-in function of the
same name, but with limits on most