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authorAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2008-05-16 07:00:58 (GMT)
committerAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2008-05-16 07:00:58 (GMT)
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Updated reprlib's documentation to mention the renaming.
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:mod:`reprlib` --- Alternate :func:`repr` implementation
=====================================================
+.. module:: repr
+ :synopsis: Old name for the reprlib module.
.. module:: reprlib
:synopsis: Alternate repr() implementation with size limits.
.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
+.. note::
+ The :mod:`repr` module has been renamed to :mod:`reprlib` in
+ Python 3.0. It is importable under both names in Python 2.6
+ and the rest of the 2.x series.
+
The :mod:`reprlib` module provides a means for producing object representations
with limits on the size of the resulting strings. This is used in the Python