At 05:17 PM 9/30/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
> >
> > Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My
> > record, in a command procedure that wrote other command procedures that
> > submitted command procedures to batch, was 13 quotes in a row. Let's *not*
> > go there, thanks.
>
>Python doesn't allow that degree of quoting. You can just use triple
>quotes as an alternative to single quotes.
Ah. I was thinking you were proposing that to embed a double-quote in a
string you just doubled it up. Two double quotes in a row meant you used
four, and so on. For strings that get repeatedly reinterpreted it gets real
quoty real quick.
It seems rather more visually confusing than qq(), though.
Dan
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