Why use backticks?

[Erik Max Francis]

Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:

> But why this rather obscure use of backticks? Is there any use for
> them
> except making code harder to read ? :-)

Nope.  Common convention dictates that the use of repr directly is
preferable to that of backquotes.

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