On Sep 27, 12:39 pm, process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)]) > > exactly what does this symbol do and what does it stand for?
`<object>` is the same as repr(<object>). I'm pretty sure the backtick operator has been removed from 3.0. In the context of the code sample you posted, it appears to be used to convert the result of x*x into a string for the join method, but I personally think it's a misuse of repr() and think a call to str() would be more appropriate: >>> ' '.join((str(x * x) for x in range(1,6))) '1 4 9 16 25' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
