Python design failures (was Re: Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!)

[JB]

Aahz wrote:

> In article <3d455445_9 at news.newsgroups.com>, JB 
> <jb at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Tim Peters wrote:
>>>
>>> two language features are mentioned as being "failed
>>> experiments" that only compatibility prevents throwing
>>> away:
>>> 
>>>     `back ticks`
>>>     lambda
>>
>>(1) Why are back ticks a failure? I love them.
> 
> If you're using backticks frequently, you're probably not
> programming
> Pythonically.  There's already repr() to produce the same
> result as backticks, and backticks have the problem that
> in many fonts they're nearly indistinguishable from single
> quotes.

I do not understand this. I use __repr__ *and* backticks. 
For example

class AnyClass:
  defr __repr__(self):
    ...

a = AnyClass()
myfile.write(`a`)

I use this construction rather frequently. What is wrong 
with it?

-- 
JB


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