== Why is this an issue?

Backticks are a deprecated alias for ``++repr()++``. Don't use them any more, the syntax was removed in Python 3.0.


=== Noncompliant code example

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return `num`  # Noncompliant
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=== Compliant solution

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return repr(num)
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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Use "repr" instead.


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