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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 23:09:45 +1000
Subject: Re: Newbie string questions
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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