On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:29:04 +0100, candide wrote: > But the first method doesn't run correctly : > > >>>> print """The play "All's Well That Ends Well"""" > File "<stdin>", line 1 > print """The play "All's Well That Ends Well"""" > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string >>>> >>>> > > Any comment ?
Of course not. Quotes can't be nested, so the first time the parser hits three quote marks, you have reached the end of the string. You then open a new string with a single quote mark, and then fail to close it. Hence the EOL while scanning a single-quoted string. There are many solutions. Here are four: >>> print """The play "All's Well That Ends Well\"""" The play "All's Well That Ends Well" >>> print '''The play "All's Well That Ends Well"''' The play "All's Well That Ends Well" >>> print 'The play "All\'s Well That Ends Well"' The play "All's Well That Ends Well" >>> print 'The play "All' "'" 's Well That Ends Well"' The play "All's Well That Ends Well" -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
