If you are in the interactive prompt of the Python interpreter and you do this
print """Testing\""" or print '''Testing\''' you get three dots [...] as if Python expects a code block. If you press Enter, you get three dots again, and again, and again... You can't get out of the code block with pressing the Enter key; you have to press Ctrl+Z (if you're in Linux) in order to get out of that code block, which then throws you back to the Linux command line, but before that it prints this line [1]+ Stopped python If you do print "Testing\" or print 'Testing\' you get an error, but not of you use the triple quotes. Is that a bug in the interpreter perhaps? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list