diff options
author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-12-31 06:32:38 (GMT) |
---|---|---|
committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-12-31 06:32:38 (GMT) |
commit | 50e7a11af11be5ef580affba6741abd7d87d4781 (patch) | |
tree | c61d96566f53e16f9951eabce594cf528a2e7673 | |
parent | af785127128303420c0ff7130b5cd0bb18010344 (diff) | |
download | cpython-50e7a11af11be5ef580affba6741abd7d87d4781.zip cpython-50e7a11af11be5ef580affba6741abd7d87d4781.tar.gz cpython-50e7a11af11be5ef580affba6741abd7d87d4781.tar.bz2 |
Correct misrepresentation of print (it uses str(), not `...` for
conversion). Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 75d6e4b..925aac0 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ classes, instances and exceptions. \indexii{built-in}{types} Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular, -all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, and converted to -a string (with the \code{`\textrm{\ldots}`} notation). The latter -conversion is implicitly used when an object is written by the +practically all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, +and converted to a string (with the \code{`\textrm{\ldots}`} notation, +the equivalent \function{repr()} function, or the slightly different +\function{str()} function). The latter +function is implicitly used when an object is written by the \keyword{print}\stindex{print} statement. (Information on \ulink{\keyword{print} statement}{../ref/print.html} and other language statements can be found in the |