[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
>>> print """testing\""" """ testing""" John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list