On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:14 PM, grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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)?
No, the Python parser handles it when it parses string literals. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
