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On 01/01/2012 05:44 AM, davidfx wrote:
> Thanks for your response.  I know the following code is not going to be correct but I want to show you what I was thinking.
>
> formatter = "%r %r %r %r"
>
> print formatter % (1, 2, 3, 4)
>
> What is the .format version of this concept?
>

I don't think the (%r)epr-formatting exist anymore, so if you want to do 
that you'll need to call repr manually.