On Jan 3, 12:39 am, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stef Mientki wrote: > > hello, > > > I'm running scripts, with the execute function (Python 2.5), > > and it seems that triple quoted strings are not allowed. > > > Is there a workaround, > > or is this a fundamental problem of the exec-function ? > > > thanks, > > Stef Mientki > > thanks for all the answers, > but I still don't understand it yet :-( > So maybe someone could explain why the next few lines of code don't work:
Stef, "it doesn't work" is user-speak. Say what what you expected, and what happened instead. > Code = '' > Code += """multiline comment > and more lines""" > exec ( Code ) That is equivalent to: code = "multiline comment\nand morelines" exec(code) which of course produces a Syntax Error. What did you expect? Oh, yeah, the so-called "multiline comment". I can't imagine why you want to put comments in code that you're going to exec, but you need an extra layer of quotes: Code += '''"""multiline comment and more lines"""''' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
