On 2010-02-26, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:29:04 +0100, candide wrote:
>
>> But the first method doesn't run correctly :
>>
>>
>>>>> print """The play "All's Well That Ends Well""""
>> File "<stdin>", line 1
>> print """The play "All's Well That Ends Well""""
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>> Any comment ?
>
> Of course not. Quotes can't be nested, so the first time the
> parser hits three quote marks, you have reached the end of the
> string. You then open a new string with a single quote mark,
> and then fail to close it. Hence the EOL while scanning a
> single-quoted string.
IMO, the error message is misleading to many people, since in
many/most contexts the term "single-quoted" refers to this:
'here is a single quoted string'
And not this:
"this is a double-quoted string"
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