Remove almost all unpaired backticks in docstrings (#119231)

As reported in #117847 and #115366, an unpaired backtick in a docstring
tends to confuse e.g. Sphinx running on subclasses of standard library
objects, and the typographic style of using a backtick as an opening
quote is no longer in favor. Convert almost all uses of the form

    The variable `foo' should do xyz

to

    The variable 'foo' should do xyz

and also fix up miscellaneous other unpaired backticks (extraneous /
missing characters).

No functional change is intended here other than in human-readable
docstrings.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index b3cc68a..75163f7 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class SMTPSenderRefused(SMTPResponseException):
     """Sender address refused.
 
     In addition to the attributes set by on all SMTPResponseException
-    exceptions, this sets `sender' to the string that the SMTP refused.
+    exceptions, this sets 'sender' to the string that the SMTP refused.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, code, msg, sender):
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ class SMTP:
     def connect(self, host='localhost', port=0, source_address=None):
         """Connect to a host on a given port.
 
-        If the hostname ends with a colon (`:') followed by a number, and
+        If the hostname ends with a colon (':') followed by a number, and
         there is no port specified, that suffix will be stripped off and the
         number interpreted as the port number to use.
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ class SMTP:
         return (code, msg)
 
     def send(self, s):
-        """Send `s' to the server."""
+        """Send 's' to the server."""
         if self.debuglevel > 0:
             self._print_debug('send:', repr(s))
         if self.sock: