On Sep 27, 3:58 pm, r0g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, just spotted the backticks - they just return whatever's inside them > as a string.
No, they return the repr() of the object inside. The output of __repr__ -has- to be a string, but typecasting into string isn't the intention of repr() (or the ` operator). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list