Re: Newbie string questions

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Date	Wed, 25 May 2011 23:09:45 +1000
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Matty Sarro <msarro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do?

You're talking about the formatting operator? It's like the repr function:

http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#repr

Chris Angelico

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Re: Newbie string questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 23:09 +1000

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