From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 06:45:01 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #3523: no backquotes any more. X-Git-Tag: v3.0b3~136 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e3830a1786fa7183d47145ec57fe1f42590601f;p=python #3523: no backquotes any more. --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 5f8d04ea0c..f2946ceaa6 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ to substitute values into strings. 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 @@ -71,9 +69,6 @@ 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::