"Russell Blau" <russblau at hotmail.com> wrote in message > Actually, I don't know the meaning of ``. > On some languages, it means "evaluate": Is it the same meaning in > Python? Why ask when you can do? : >>> `name` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'name' is not defined >>> name = 2 >>> `name` '2'