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return False
+.. function:: ascii(object)
+
+ As :func:`repr`, return a string containing a printable
+ representation of an object. But unlike :func:`repr`, the non-ASCII
+ characters in the string returned by :func:`ascii`() are hex-escaped
+ to generate a same string as :func:`repr` in Python 2.
+
+
.. function:: bin(x)
Convert an integer number to a binary string. The result is a valid Python