Georg Brandl wrote: >Guido van Rossum wrote: > > >>Backticks certainly are deprecated -- Py3k won't have them (nor will >>they become available for other syntax; they are undesirable >>characters due to font issues and the tendency of word processing >>tools to generate backticks in certain cases where you type forward >>ticks). >> >> > >And would it be acceptable for 2.5 to issue a DeprecationWarning for >backticks? > > > No. Backticks do not disappear until Py3.0 and we're not going to muck-up the 2.x series with warnings and deprecations for everything that is going to change in Py3.0.
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