Tuple Format?

[Ben Wolfson]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:45:53 -0700, Clarence Gardner <clarence at netlojix.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Ben Wolfson wrote:
>>On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:49:58 GMT, nobody at nowhere.nohow (Grant Edwards)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think the single back-quote "`" is used for anything in Python, is
>>>it?
>>
>>Backquotes around an object (`x`) appear to be a shorthand for calling
>>repr() on that object.  It seems rather odd, to me, that there should be
>>two ways to do such a simple thing.
>>
>Allow me to remove the oddity, then.  What is inside of the backquotes
>is not an object, but an expression.  The backquotes evaluate the expression
>and return the result, stringified.

Isn't that the same behavior as repr()?

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