process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)])
>
> exactly what does this symbol do and what does it stand for?
It's an obsolete, deprecated syntactic sugar for (what is now
implemented as) the built-in 'repr' function.
Instead, write the above as:
' '.join([repr(x * x) for x in range(1, 6)])
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