[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's a thing that bugs me in Python. Look at this... > >>>> print "Testing\" > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > > > Please focus on the part of the error message that states "while > scanning single-quoted string". How can Python claim it scanned a > single-quoted string when I fed it with a double-quoted string? Is > quote type (single quote and double quote) recognition not implemented > in Python? > Of course it is, but that isn't what is meant here.
Python supports single-quoted strings which are delimited by either a single quote or a double quote mark. It also supports triple-quoted strings which are delimited either by three single quotes or three double quotes. The overloaded meaning of 'single' is perhaps unfortunate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
