diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index dccd3ff..bc61afb 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@
             if not self.context_use_ps1:
                 for context in self.num_context_lines:
                     startat = max(lno - context, 1)
-                    startatindex = `startat` + ".0"
+                    startatindex = repr(startat) + ".0"
                     rawtext = text.get(startatindex, "insert")
                     y.set_str(rawtext)
                     bod = y.find_good_parse_start(
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py b/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
index 519de74..31f46b1 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         if not editwin.context_use_ps1:
             for context in editwin.num_context_lines:
                 startat = max(lno - context, 1)
-                startatindex = `startat` + ".0"
+                startatindex = repr(startat) + ".0"
                 stopatindex = "%d.end" % lno
                 # We add the newline because PyParse requires a newline at end.
                 # We add a space so that index won't be at end of line, so that