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authorAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2008-05-16 07:12:44 (GMT)
committerAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2008-05-16 07:12:44 (GMT)
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Rename the repr module to reprlib.
Merged revisions 63357 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r63357 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-16 02:58:49 -0400 (Fri, 16 May 2008) | 2 lines Changed references to the reprlib module to use its new name. ........
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/reprlib.rst (renamed from Doc/library/repr.rst)13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/repr.rst b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
index 3f7fc22..84fd6fb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/repr.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-:mod:`repr` --- Alternate :func:`repr` implementation
+:mod:`reprlib` --- Alternate :func:`repr` implementation
=====================================================
-.. module:: repr
+.. module:: reprlib
:synopsis: Alternate repr() implementation with size limits.
.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
-The :mod:`repr` module provides a means for producing object representations
+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
debugger and may be useful in other contexts as well.
@@ -62,10 +62,13 @@ which format specific object types.
default is ``4`` for :attr:`maxdict`, ``5`` for :attr:`maxarray`, and ``6`` for
the others.
+ .. versionadded:: 2.4
+ :attr:`maxset`, :attr:`maxfrozenset`, and :attr:`set`.
+
.. attribute:: Repr.maxlong
- Maximum number of characters in the representation for an integer. Digits
+ Maximum number of characters in the representation for a long integer. Digits
are dropped from the middle. The default is ``40``.
@@ -129,5 +132,5 @@ for file objects could be added::
return `obj`
aRepr = MyRepr()
- print(aRepr.repr(sys.stdin)) # prints '<stdin>'
+ print aRepr.repr(sys.stdin) # prints '<stdin>'