On May 24, 11:47 am, Hans Müller <heint...@web.de> wrote: > Try this: > > print "\\" > > \ is the escape character, it masks the meaning of the next chararcter. > > If you write print "\" python tries to print " (the meaning of " as > the string delimiter is beeing masked) and finds no closing " > This is why you got the error. >
So something like "\" changes the meaning of " ? How? Does it just shift the ASCII bit(s)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list