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: ' '.join([repr(x * x) for x in range(1, 6)]) -- \ “Killing the creator was the traditional method of patent | `\ protection” —Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list