On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:38:39AM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Neil, I'm not sure if your sole motivation for subclassing htmltext from
> str was to eliminate the need to 'cast' strings in PTL templates. Certainly
> this is an excellent reason to do it, but perhaps you had more on your mind?

Nope. :-)

> I wonder whether a 'cheap trick' might help us all out... since backticks
> are deprecated in Python, perhaps we could put them to good use in PTL

> It's still deceptively easy to type some_function('with quotes') in PTL,
> and have it behave unexpectedly.

Right.  I don't think using backticks will help much.

  Neil