The acute accent (´) is a special apostrophe if the user has no experience or can't type in the apostrophe (or the grave accent: `). You don't use Python but you aren't subscribed to this list (so non-subscribers can post).
Example of special quotes: `xxx´ An example of a post on the python-list mailing list is: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/075469.html (posted in February 2001) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
