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Remove mention of backquotes in the tutorial.

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Georg Brandl 2008-08-08 15:34:34 +00:00
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@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method.
One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily,
Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr`
or :func:`str` functions. Reverse quotes (``````) are equivalent to
:func:`repr`, but they are no longer used in modern Python code and are removed
in future versions of the language.
or :func:`str` functions.
The :func:`str` function is meant to return representations of values which are
fairly human-readable, while :func:`repr` is meant to generate representations
@ -68,9 +66,6 @@ Some examples::
>>> # The argument to repr() may be any Python object:
... repr((x, y, ('spam', 'eggs')))
"(32.5, 40000, ('spam', 'eggs'))"
>>> # reverse quotes are convenient in interactive sessions:
... `x, y, ('spam', 'eggs')`
"(32.5, 40000, ('spam', 'eggs'))"
Here are two ways to write a table of squares and cubes::