Why use backticks?
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)
ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com
Thu May 8 20:47:25 EDT 2003
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
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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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