OT: The Straight Dope

[Andrew Dalke]

Bruno Desthuilliers:
> It might have something to do with the CMU Common Lisp compiler, also
> named Python ?

No.  Backticks are another way of doing repr.  Few use it.

>>> print "Hello"
Hello
>>> print `"Hello"`
'Hello'
>>>

                        Andrew
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