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		dotandimet on April 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zed Shaw is Writing A Book Teaching Beginner Pytho... The first example print statements in Zed's book have backticks (`foo`). I don't know Python, but I'm guessing those should be single ticks ('foo')?

Estragon on April 25, 2010 [–]

Not in the rendering I see.

But backticks are valid python syntax, but relatively unused, these days. The contents of backticks are evaluated, and the result is returned as a string representation.

  >>> `1+1`
  '2'

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