escaping quotes

2006-02-28 Thread John Salerno
I'm reading through the tutorial and found this in section 3: 'Isn\'t, she said.' 'Isn\'t, she said.' Why doesn't the escape sequence work in this case? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: escaping quotes

2006-02-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Salerno wrote: I'm reading through the tutorial and found this in section 3: 'Isn\'t, she said.' 'Isn\'t, she said.' Why doesn't the escape sequence work in this case? because the interactive prompt echos the result back to you as a Python literal, where possible. compare

Re: escaping quotes

2006-02-28 Thread John Salerno
Fredrik Lundh wrote: because the interactive prompt echos the result back to you as a Python literal, where possible. compare Ah, of course! I forgot it wasn't 'print'ing it. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list