Dec. 1, 2003
4:42 a.m.
Yes, backticks will be gone in 3.0. But I expect there's no hope of getting rid of them earlier -- they've been used too much. I suspect
Then let's kill all use of backticks in the standard library. There's a lot of them.
Advisory from a micro-performance hawk: Backticks are faster than repr()
from timeit import Timer min(Timer('`x`', 'x=1').repeat(3)) 1.4857213496706265 min(Timer('repr(x)', 'x=1').repeat(3)) 1.7748914665012876
Raymond Hettinger