Index: Doc/library/functions.rst
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--- Doc/library/functions.rst	(revision 61434)
+++ Doc/library/functions.rst	(working copy)
@@ -979,7 +979,10 @@
    same value yielded by conversions (reverse quotes). It is sometimes useful to be
    able to access this operation as an ordinary function.  For many types, this
    function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an object with the
-   same value when passed to :func:`eval`.
+   same value when passed to :func:`eval`, otherwise the
+   representation is a string enclosed in angle brackets that contains
+   the name of the type of the object together with additional
+   information often including the name and address of the object.
 
 
 .. function:: reversed(seq)