Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular,
practically all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, and converted
-to a string (with the :func:`repr` function or the slightly different
+to a string (with the :ref:`repr() <func-repr>` function or the slightly different
:func:`str` function). The latter function is implicitly used when an object is
written by the :func:`print` function.
| | character string). | |
+------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
| ``'r'`` | String (converts any Python object using | \(5) |
-| | :func:`repr`). | |
+| | :ref:`repr() <func-repr>`). | |
+------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
| ``'s'`` | String (converts any Python object using | \(6) |
| | :func:`str`). | |