Kent> Am I misunderstanding something? Perhaps. There is definitely a deficiency in the Emacs syntax table stuff, at least the way python-mode uses it. I believe the other Python mode (the one delivered with recent versions of GNU Emacs) might handle triple-quoted strings better.
In many cases you can avoid the problem by using """...""" to surround strings containing apostrophes and '''...''' to surround strings containing quotation marks. The only problem you encounter there is the situation where your doc strings contain both quotation marks and apostrophes. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode