Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: All your samples explain easily if you consider that two adjacent string literals are joined together. (You seem to consider that "double quote" is a way to insert a quote character. It's not; Python is not Pascal or SQL)
Your first two examples become: a='a''a' two adjacent strings == 'aa' a='a''''a' three adjacent strings ('a' + '' + 'a') == 'aa' The third is an error: a='a''''''a' one string ('a') followed by the beginning of a "triple quoted string" (''') which content starts with the characters (''a') but does not have a matching (''') to finish the string, hence the Syntax error. ... and so on. Please have a look at http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4164> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com