Re: Build-in 'repr' function (was: what does ` ` do in ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)])?)

2008-09-27 Thread MRAB
On Sep 27, 4:16 am, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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'

Build-in 'repr' function (was: what does ` ` do in ' '.join([`x * x` for x in range(1, 6)])?)

2008-09-26 Thread Ben Finney
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: '