[Python-ideas] new operators via backquoting

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 16:27:11 CET 2007


Patch 1627052, assigned to Georg, adds backtick-reuse to PEP 3099
(rejected ideas).

On 1/2/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Chris Rebert <cvrebert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thus, I propose one of the following as the new use for the backtick (`):
>
> You're missing one of the main reasons for removing the backtick
> syntax in the first place: the character itself causes trouble by
> looking too much like a regular quote (depending on your font), is
> routinely mangled by typesetting software (as every Python book author
> can testify), and requires a four-finger chord on Swiss keyboards. No
> new uses for it will be accepted in Python 3000 no matter how good the
> idea.
>
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