Roelof, On 14 September 2010 17:35, Roelof Wobben <rwob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> But how can I use the triple quotes when reading a textf-file ? > To repeat what I said before, obviously not clearly enough: All the quoting stuff, escaping stuff, all of that ONLY APPLIES TO STRINGS/DATA INSIDE OF YOUR PYTHON CODE. It does NOT APPLY TO DATA INSIDE OF FILES! Why not to files? Because there's no ambiguity in data inside a file. It's understood that everything in a file is just data. By contrast, in Python code, quote characters have *meaning*. Specifically they indicate the start and end of string literals. So when they themselves are part of teh string you have to write them specially to indicate their meaning, either as closing the string, or as part of the string data. In a file by contrast, every character is presumed to be just a piece of data, and so quotes have no special inherent meaning to Python, so they just represent themselves and always just form part of the data being read from the file. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you have any doubt please respond so we can try to get this cleared up -- Unless and until you realise there's a difference between data in a file and string literals in your python source code you're not going to undertand what you're doing here. Regards, Walter
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