> Hmm, I don't agree. They are not 'values' in the Python sense - if I
> type 127.0.0.1 at a Python prompt I get a syntax error. They are no more
> values than integers and floats (less so, by the above definition), and
> we don't put any special markup around numbers. They would become values
> if wrapped in quotes to make them Python strings.
I suppose that was my latter point as I reasoned through it: they're
only Python values when wrapped in the quotes to make them a string.
> So I would go for plain text with no quotes - it seems easier to read
> that way and much more in keeping with how I've seen them written
> elsewhere. If they appear in the sentence as text that must be typed,
> then use the double ticks. So I would have sentences like this:
>
> Note that the default IP address, 127.0.0.1, is not accessible from
> other machines on your network
>
> In the IP address field, enter ``127.0.0.1``.
I can get behind this. It's appropriate to the context, and I never
did like quotes inside backticks.
- Gabriel
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