Tuple Format?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <968021312.139090337 at news.silcom.com>, Clarence Gardner wrote:
>
>>Backquotes around an object (`x`) appear to be a shorthand for calling
>>repr() on that object.  It seems rather odd, to me, that there should be
>>two ways to do such a simple thing.
>>
>Allow me to remove the oddity, then.  What is inside of the backquotes
>is not an object, but an expression.  The backquotes evaluate the expression
>and return the result, stringified.

OK, so he should have typed "expression" rather than "object".  The point is
still valid.

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