Lars Hansen wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the intent is, but as this is written:
>>
>> """abc""""def"""
>>
>> will evaluate to the same string as 'abc""""def'.
>
> It will not. The text of the spec is "The literal is terminated by the
> earliest sequence of three unescaped instances of the the same quote
> character that is not followed by a fourth quote character of the same
> kind." So the string is the four-letter sequence abc". Perhaps the
> sentence would be even clearer if the word "immediately" were to precede
> the word "followed".
>From the discussions on the list I knew what you meant, but as written this is
>ambiguous. I read it as a string of four or more quote characters not being
>eligible to be a terminator, so you skip it and look for the next sequence.
Waldemar
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