Build-in 'repr' function (was: what does ` ` do in ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)])?)

[Ben Finney]

process <circularfunc at gmail.com> writes:

> ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)])
> 
> exactly what does this symbol do and what does it stand for?

It's an obsolete, deprecated syntactic sugar for (what is now
implemented as) the built-in 'repr' function.

Instead, write the above as:

    ' '.join([repr(x * x) for x in range(1, 6)])

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