On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: > I still think the doubling convention of Algol68 is superior: > """Help me Obiwan,"" she said, ""You're my only hope!""" > > No special treatment of any other symbol than the quote itself. > A quoting symbol is such a devious syntactic element that I rather > not have two ( " ' ) or even three ( " ' \ )
Trouble with that is the forest of backslashes that you get with non-raw strings containing regular expressions that look for Windows paths. One backslash in the path becomes two in the regexp and four in the string. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
