On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 12:43:32 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > 3. Arguing about definitions is silly. Is 0 a natural number? Is 1 a > prime number?
Speaking about silliness of definitions, I was knocked out in class by this today: >>> r"\"" '\\"' Seeing the docs https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals it talks of this explicitly But I still find it strange -- I would have expected this kind of error behavior: >>> "A string" "another incomplete SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal >>> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
