Ben Wolfson rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org
Sat Sep 2 23:02:18 EDT 2000

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On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:49:58 GMT, nobody at nowhere.nohow (Grant Edwards)
wrote:

>I don't think the single back-quote "`" is used for anything in Python, is
>it?

Backquotes around an object (`x`) appear to be a shorthand for calling
repr() on that object.  It seems rather odd, to me, that there should be
two ways to do such a simple thing.

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