All tutorials for the difference between str() and repr() state that repr() returns machine-readable code. But I don't understand why having quotations around the return string makes for more machine readable code. In both cases, they return a string variable that can automatically be inserted into another piece of code automatically without doing any sort of processing on the string. Can you give me an example of when those quotations around the repr() string would be helpful in coding such that you would HAVE to use repr(string) over the str() variant? Continue reading...
