Why use backticks?

[Gary D. Duzan]

In article <b9esta$i83f5$1 at ID-169208.news.dfncis.de>,
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>Francis Avila wrote:
>> In my experience they are used mostly in pasting together strings, where
>> they remove a lot of verbosity and look somewhat more natural. Compare:
>> 
>> 'x = '+`x`.
>> 'x = ' + repr(x)
>
>I would write that as
>
>   'x = %r' % x

   Unless x can hold a tuple, in which case you want:

   'x = %r' % (x,)

					Gary Duzan
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