Why use backticks?

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue May 6 16:25:25 EDT 2003


    Iwan> But why this rather obscure use of backticks? 

Apparently a moment of BDFL weakness.  Use repr() instead.

    Iwan> Is there any use for them except making code harder to read ? :-)

They make Perl folks more comfortable when first introduced to Python.

Skip





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