[3.11] Docs: Fix backtick errors found by sphinx-lint (GH-97998) (#98371)

Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>.
(cherry picked from commit fa2d43e5184f5eaf3391844ec2400342a1b2ead4)

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

10 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 731ce6a..34f2656 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -717,13 +717,13 @@ This will produce the output::
 PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting
 =====================================================
 
-In Python 3.0, the `%` operator is supplemented by a more powerful string
+In Python 3.0, the ``%`` operator is supplemented by a more powerful string
 formatting method, :meth:`format`.  Support for the :meth:`str.format` method
 has been backported to Python 2.6.
 
-In 2.6, both 8-bit and Unicode strings have a `.format()` method that
+In 2.6, both 8-bit and Unicode strings have a ``.format()`` method that
 treats the string as a template and takes the arguments to be formatted.
-The formatting template uses curly brackets (`{`, `}`) as special characters::
+The formatting template uses curly brackets (``{``, ``}``) as special characters::
 
      >>> # Substitute positional argument 0 into the string.
      >>> "User ID: {0}".format("root")
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 3df9f8a..82f5ea3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -2485,8 +2485,8 @@ In the standard library:
 
 * The ElementTree library, :mod:`xml.etree`, no longer escapes
   ampersands and angle brackets when outputting an XML processing
-  instruction (which looks like `<?xml-stylesheet href="#style1"?>`)
-  or comment (which looks like `<!-- comment -->`).
+  instruction (which looks like ``<?xml-stylesheet href="#style1"?>``)
+  or comment (which looks like ``<!-- comment -->``).
   (Patch by Neil Muller; :issue:`2746`.)
 
 * The :meth:`~StringIO.StringIO.readline` method of :class:`~StringIO.StringIO` objects now does
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index db8d928..24d5bba 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ and will be incorrect in some rare cases, including some ``_``-s in
 
 New in 3.10 maintenance releases.
 
-Apply syntax highlighting to `.pyi` files. (Contributed by Alex
+Apply syntax highlighting to ``.pyi`` files. (Contributed by Alex
 Waygood and Terry Jan Reedy in :issue:`45447`.)
 
 Include prompts when saving Shell with inputs and outputs.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index b765b1a..bb95383 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ hashlib
 IDLE and idlelib
 ----------------
 
-* Apply syntax highlighting to `.pyi` files. (Contributed by Alex
+* Apply syntax highlighting to ``.pyi`` files. (Contributed by Alex
   Waygood and Terry Jan Reedy in :issue:`45447`.)
 
 * Include prompts when saving Shell with inputs and outputs.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 7b12e63..3becd3f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ names.
   instead of module names for running specific tests (:issue:`10620`).  The new
   test discovery can find tests within packages, locating any test importable
   from the top-level directory.  The top-level directory can be specified with
-  the `-t` option, a pattern for matching files with ``-p``, and a directory to
+  the ``-t`` option, a pattern for matching files with ``-p``, and a directory to
   start discovery with ``-s``:
 
   .. code-block:: shell-session
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ asyncore
 
 :class:`asyncore.dispatcher` now provides a
 :meth:`~asyncore.dispatcher.handle_accepted()` method
-returning a `(sock, addr)` pair which is called when a connection has actually
+returning a ``(sock, addr)`` pair which is called when a connection has actually
 been established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
 replacement for old :meth:`~asyncore.dispatcher.handle_accept()` and avoids
 the user  to call :meth:`~asyncore.dispatcher.accept()` directly.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index fef1a8a..96a6325 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -2389,10 +2389,10 @@ Porting Python code
   :attr:`sys.path_importer_cache` where it represents the use of implicit
   finders, but semantically it should not change anything.
 
-* :class:`importlib.abc.Finder` no longer specifies a `find_module()` abstract
+* :class:`importlib.abc.Finder` no longer specifies a ``find_module()`` abstract
   method that must be implemented. If you were relying on subclasses to
   implement that method, make sure to check for the method's existence first.
-  You will probably want to check for `find_loader()` first, though, in the
+  You will probably want to check for ``find_loader()`` first, though, in the
   case of working with :term:`path entry finders <path entry finder>`.
 
 * :mod:`pkgutil` has been converted to use :mod:`importlib` internally. This
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 625373d..f9cceec 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -2469,11 +2469,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
   ``opt-`` tag in ``.pyc`` file names. The
   :func:`importlib.util.cache_from_source` has gained an *optimization*
   parameter to help control the ``opt-`` tag. Because of this, the
-  *debug_override* parameter of the function is now deprecated. `.pyo` files
+  *debug_override* parameter of the function is now deprecated. ``.pyo`` files
   are also no longer supported as a file argument to the Python interpreter and
   thus serve no purpose when distributed on their own (i.e. sourceless code
   distribution). Due to the fact that the magic number for bytecode has changed
-  in Python 3.5, all old `.pyo` files from previous versions of Python are
+  in Python 3.5, all old ``.pyo`` files from previous versions of Python are
   invalid regardless of this PEP.
 
 * The :mod:`socket` module now exports the :data:`~socket.CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES`
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index bcca28d..70e4525 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ contextlib
 
 The :class:`contextlib.AbstractContextManager` class has been added to
 provide an abstract base class for context managers.  It provides a
-sensible default implementation for `__enter__()` which returns
-``self`` and leaves `__exit__()` an abstract method.  A matching
+sensible default implementation for ``__enter__()`` which returns
+``self`` and leaves ``__exit__()`` an abstract method.  A matching
 class has been added to the :mod:`typing` module as
 :class:`typing.ContextManager`.
 (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25609`.)
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ are treated as punctuation.
 site
 ----
 
-When specifying paths to add to :attr:`sys.path` in a `.pth` file,
+When specifying paths to add to :attr:`sys.path` in a ``.pth`` file,
 you may now specify file paths on top of directories (e.g. zip files).
 (Contributed by Wolfgang Langner in :issue:`26587`).
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 5bb3d2a..de03e5b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -2497,7 +2497,7 @@ number of other issues). Some known details affected:
 
 * :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode` is not currently usable by embedding
   applications due to the requirement to create a Unicode object prior to
-  calling `Py_Initialize`. Use :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOption` instead.
+  calling ``Py_Initialize``. Use :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOption` instead.
 
 * warnings filters added by an embedding application with
   :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOption` should now more consistently take precedence
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index ff01a65..624e71f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ Reedy in :issue:`40468`.)  Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to
 the new Windows tab.  (Contributed by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy in
 :issue:`33962`.)
 
-Apply syntax highlighting to `.pyi` files. (Contributed by Alex
+Apply syntax highlighting to ``.pyi`` files. (Contributed by Alex
 Waygood and Terry Jan Reedy in :issue:`45447`.)
 
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