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What is the difference between __repr__ and __str__?

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Understand the problem

Two string representations.

dunderreprstr
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repr gives an unambiguous, developer-facing representation (ideally re-creatable); str gives a readable, user-facing one and falls back to repr.

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PYrepr is recreatable; str is friendly; container uses repr
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