diff --git a/pandas/core/base.py b/pandas/core/base.py
index f390592a6f6c4..2acc045156720 100644
--- a/pandas/core/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/base.py
@@ -175,4 +175,4 @@ def __unicode__(self):
         Invoked by unicode(df) in py2 only. Yields a Unicode String in both py2/py3.
         """
         prepr = com.pprint_thing(self, escape_chars=('\t', '\r', '\n'),quote_strings=True)
-        return '%s(%s, dtype=%s)' % (type(self).__name__, prepr, self.dtype)
+        return "%s(%s, dtype='%s')" % (type(self).__name__, prepr, self.dtype)
diff --git a/pandas/core/index.py b/pandas/core/index.py
index 465a0439c6eb3..98f190360bc33 100644
--- a/pandas/core/index.py
+++ b/pandas/core/index.py
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
             attrs.append(('sortorder', default_pprint(self.sortorder)))
 
         space = ' ' * (len(self.__class__.__name__) + 1)
-        prepr = (u("\n%s") % space).join([u("%s=%s") % (k, v)
+        prepr = (u(",\n%s") % space).join([u("%s=%s") % (k, v)
                                           for k, v in attrs])
         res = u("%s(%s)") % (self.__class__.__name__, prepr)
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_format.py b/pandas/tests/test_format.py
index 55f70e9e4fe28..d9bf8adb71298 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_format.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_format.py
@@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ def test_to_html_with_classes(self):
             <table border="1" class="dataframe sortable draggable">
               <tbody>
                 <tr>
-                  <td>Index([], dtype=object)</td>
+                  <td>Index([], dtype='object')</td>
                   <td>Empty DataFrame</td>
                 </tr>
               </tbody>
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_index.py b/pandas/tests/test_index.py
index 11538ae8b3ab8..cd26016acba5c 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_index.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_index.py
@@ -36,21 +36,23 @@ class TestIndex(unittest.TestCase):
     _multiprocess_can_split_ = True
 
     def setUp(self):
-        self.unicodeIndex = tm.makeUnicodeIndex(100)
-        self.strIndex = tm.makeStringIndex(100)
-        self.dateIndex = tm.makeDateIndex(100)
-        self.intIndex = tm.makeIntIndex(100)
-        self.floatIndex = tm.makeFloatIndex(100)
-        self.empty = Index([])
-        self.tuples = Index(lzip(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], [1, 2, 3]))
+        self.indices = dict(
+            unicodeIndex = tm.makeUnicodeIndex(100),
+            strIndex = tm.makeStringIndex(100),
+            dateIndex = tm.makeDateIndex(100),
+            intIndex = tm.makeIntIndex(100),
+            floatIndex = tm.makeFloatIndex(100),
+            empty = Index([]),
+            tuples = Index(lzip(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], [1, 2, 3])),
+        )
+        for name, ind in self.indices.items():
+            setattr(self, name, ind)
 
     def test_wrong_number_names(self):
         def testit(ind):
             ind.names = ["apple", "banana", "carrot"]
 
-        indices = (self.dateIndex, self.unicodeIndex, self.strIndex,
-                   self.intIndex, self.floatIndex, self.empty, self.tuples)
-        for ind in indices:
+        for ind in self.indices.values():
             assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, "^Length", testit, ind)
 
     def test_set_name_methods(self):
@@ -700,6 +702,10 @@ def test_hash_error(self):
                                    type(self.float).__name__):
             hash(self.float)
 
+    def test_repr_roundtrip(self):
+        for ind in (self.mixed, self.float):
+            tm.assert_index_equal(eval(repr(ind)), ind)
+
     def check_is_index(self, i):
         self.assert_(isinstance(i, Index) and not isinstance(i, Float64Index))
 
@@ -1167,6 +1173,9 @@ def test_repr_summary(self):
             self.assertTrue(len(r) < 100)
             self.assertTrue("..." in r)
 
+    def test_repr_roundtrip(self):
+        tm.assert_index_equal(eval(repr(self.index)), self.index)
+
     def test_unicode_string_with_unicode(self):
         idx = Index(lrange(1000))
 
@@ -2291,6 +2300,9 @@ def test_repr_with_unicode_data(self):
             index = pd.DataFrame(d).set_index(["a", "b"]).index
             self.assertFalse("\\u" in repr(index))  # we don't want unicode-escaped
 
+    def test_repr_roundtrip(self):
+        tm.assert_index_equal(eval(repr(self.index)), self.index)
+
     def test_unicode_string_with_unicode(self):
         d = {"a": [u("\u05d0"), 2, 3], "b": [4, 5, 6], "c": [7, 8, 9]}
         idx = pd.DataFrame(d).set_index(["a", "b"]).index