Definition of "repr" [repr]

• An abbreviation (used in this work) of representing;
• Representative

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Basically, the repr function or the backticks are used to obtain a printable representation of the object. you can control what your objects return for the repr function by defining the __repr__ method in your class."
• "George Herbert Mair 1560; repr., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909, 163."
• "Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. 2003; repr."