meaning of two different single-quote characters?

Daniel Klein danielk at aracnet.com
Sat Jan 5 11:45:03 EST 2002


Look up the docs for the repr() built-in function.

Also, just about every Python book in print has something about this;
try Beazley's Python Essential Reference, pages 5,34,50,104.

Dan

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:07:42 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Johnson"
<abig10_4 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>I was working through some example in "Thinking in Python".  Had never noticed
>the difference between Python's use of
>   '
>
>vs
>   `
>
>the "'" character is the normal string-quoter.
>
>the "`" character seems to be an operator that shows the value of an object.
>
>Was unable to find docs on this.  
>
>Anyone?
>
>mike





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