The repr 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.
This module provides a class, an instance, and a function:
- 
  Class which provides formatting services useful in implementing
  functions similar to the built-in repr(); size limits for 
  different object types are added to avoid the generation of
  representations which are excessively long.
- aRepr
- 
  This is an instance of Repr which is used to provide the
  repr() function described below.  Changing the attributes
  of this object will affect the size limits used by repr()
  and the Python debugger.
- 
  This is the repr() method of aRepr.  It returns a
  string similar to that returned by the built-in function of the same 
  name, but with limits on most sizes.
Release 2.4.3, documentation updated on 29 March 2006.
 
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