Equivalent of Bash Backticks in Python

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What is the equivalent of the backticks found in Ruby and Perl in Python? That is, in Ruby I can do this:

foo = `cat /tmp/baz`

What does the equivalent statement look like in Python? I've tried os.system("cat /tmp/baz") but that puts the result to standard out and returns to me the error code of that operation.

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repr()

The backtick (`) operator was removed in Python 3. It is confusingly similar to a single quote, and hard to type on some keyboards. Instead of the backtick, use the equivalent built-in function repr().

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