line continuations with backslash

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

27 Aug 2001 20:06:21 -0700, Paul Rubin <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> pisze:

>> >>> dis.dis(compile(`long('123' '456')`, '', 'eval'))
>>           0 SET_LINENO               0
>>           3 LOAD_CONST               0 (123456L)
>>           6 RETURN_VALUE
> 
> Wow!  Thanks.  I think I'll just use long('123' '456') unless I really
> run out of memory.

It's not evaluated at compilation time. Here `` caused it to be
evaluated before compilation.

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