[Tutor] importance of quotes ..

[Randall Randall]

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On 10-May-2000 Kevin Liang wrote:
>  Hi all,
>       I was just working on ch.6, exercise 2  of Learning Python.  I 
>  came to the point when I had copied word-for-word the answer to the question
>  (or so I thought), yet it still refused to run properly.. then I looked
>  carefully,
>  and noticed a *return* statement had '''' quotes instead of `````.  I
>  changed
>  it , and it worked..  Now, I'm a little confused as to why this is so
>  important..
>  I'm always bogged down on things like this.  thanks

The back quotes are used as a kind of shorthand,
where you would otherwise use "repr()".  They
convert whatever is inside them into a string.

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