Thanks guys! I appreciate it. I was wondering why %r was always showing things enclosed in single-quotes.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Guidry <ch...@theguidrys.us> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote: >> can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now >> what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do? I can't find it in the >> documentation anywhere. > > Matty, %r in a format string is very much like %s. %s calls str(your_object) > in order to produce the resulting string. %r calls repr(your_object). > Generally, you'd want to use %s for strings that will surface to a user, > while %r is great for debugging and logging. > > Also, if you haven't come across repr(), you should be able to find that in > the docs; it's also considered good practice to overload repr() in your own > classes in order to provide a useful representation for your objects. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
