From 900abf8ce300a0e5c3f1e3536faab7c589755b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:25:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add a __repr__ to reprlib.Repr

---
 Doc/library/reprlib.rst  | 4 ++++
 Lib/reprlib.py           | 4 ++++
 Lib/test/test_reprlib.py | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
index d269d8bbaa55da5..75d0df481c79b41 100644
--- a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ This module provides a class, an instance, and a function:
    .. versionchanged:: 3.12
       Allow attributes to be set via keyword arguments.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: next
+      :class:`!Repr` instances now have a string representation that includes
+      their attribute values.
+
 
 .. data:: aRepr
 
diff --git a/Lib/reprlib.py b/Lib/reprlib.py
index ab18247682b69aa..8e3dff2f1ba3455 100644
--- a/Lib/reprlib.py
+++ b/Lib/reprlib.py
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.fillvalue = fillvalue
         self.indent = indent
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        args = ', '.join(f'{key}={value!r}' for key, value in self.__dict__.items())
+        return f'{type(self).__name__}({args})'
+
     def repr(self, x):
         return self.repr1(x, self.maxlevel)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_reprlib.py b/Lib/test/test_reprlib.py
index 5a95a05c6496a29..ecfd199fde45315 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_reprlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_reprlib.py
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ def nestedTuple(nesting):
 
 class ReprTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    def test_repr(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            repr(Repr(maxlevel=3, fillvalue='***', indent='\t')),
+            "Repr(maxlevel=3, maxtuple=6, maxlist=6, maxarray=5, maxdict=4, "
+            "maxset=6, maxfrozenset=6, maxdeque=6, maxstring=30, maxlong=40, "
+            "maxother=30, fillvalue='***', indent='\\t')",
+        )
+
     def test_init_kwargs(self):
         example_kwargs = {
             "maxlevel": 101,

From 1982ce62edb43fd093cb67a73f3631fabe1406ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:26:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add blurb.

---
 .../next/Library/2026-11-03-21-26-09.gh-issue-161295.IJqoJM.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-03-21-26-09.gh-issue-161295.IJqoJM.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-03-21-26-09.gh-issue-161295.IJqoJM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-03-21-26-09.gh-issue-161295.IJqoJM.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..f2ede87899e9406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-11-03-21-26-09.gh-issue-161295.IJqoJM.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+:class:`reprlib.Repr` objects now have a meaningful :meth:`~object.__repr__`
+describing the instance attributes.