Re: [Python-Dev] Banishing apply(), buffer(), coerce(), and intern()

Then let's kill all use of backticks in the standard library. There's a lot of them.

That's one reason why we have to support them for a long time; there standard library has widely been used as sample code, so there's likely to be a lot of them elsewhere. As always, be careful with doing peephole changes to the standard library -- historically, we've seen a 1-5% error rate in these change sets that persists for months or years afterwards. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)