From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:32:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Correct misrepresentation of print (it uses str(), not `...` for
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Correct misrepresentation of print (it uses str(), not `...` for
conversion).  Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index 75d6e4bea1ec..925aac0f930c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ classes, instances and exceptions.
 \indexii{built-in}{types}
 
 Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular,
-all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, and converted to
-a string (with the \code{`\textrm{\ldots}`} notation).  The latter
-conversion is implicitly used when an object is written by the
+practically all objects can be compared, tested for truth value,
+and converted to a string (with the \code{`\textrm{\ldots}`} notation,
+the equivalent \function{repr()} function, or the slightly different
+\function{str()} function).  The latter
+function is implicitly used when an object is written by the
 \keyword{print}\stindex{print} statement.
 (Information on \ulink{\keyword{print} statement}{../ref/print.html}
 and other language statements can be found in the