diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index 75fbea9..ef94e14 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -584,6 +584,8 @@
         self.text = text_or_uri
     def __str__(self):
         return self.text
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<QName %r>' % self.text
     def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self.text)
     def __le__(self, other):