On 2010-06-20, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't this a bug? > > print \" > > SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
No. http://www.google.com/search?q=python+line+continuation+character First hit: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html Section 2.1.5 Two or more physical lines may be joined into logical lines using backslash characters (\), as follows: when a physical line ends in a backslash that is not part of a string literal or comment, [...] [...] A backslash is illegal elsewhere on a line outside a string literal. Anything else we can look up for you? -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list