Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking, but perhaps you want triple quotes?
>>> print "now is the time for all good men ..." now is the time for all good men ... >>> print '''now is the time for "all good men" ...''' now is the time for "all good men" ... It's not easy to visually distinguish two apostrophes from a double quote in all fonts, so I've explicitly written this using rich text and highlighted the Python session snippet in Courier. Skip
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