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Python | repr method

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Python's repr(obj) method returns a printable representation of an object as a string.

Examples

The printable representation of a string has a '' wrapped around it:

x = "hello"
print(repr(x))
'hello'

The repr(obj) method comes in handy when you need to escape special characters such as the new line character (\n):

x = "\nhello\n"
print(repr(x))
'\nhello\n'

This is contrast to printing the string directly:

x = "\nhello\n"
print(x)
hello

Internally, the repr(obj) function is actually calling the __repr__(self) method of the object. We can implement this method for our own classes:

class Person:

def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name

def __repr__(self):
return repr("My name is " + self.name)

person_alex = Person("alex")
print(repr(person_alex))
'My name is alex'

If you're using Jupyter notebook, evaluating the object directly outputs the __repr__ like so:

person_alex
'My name is alex'
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