Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > py> """\"""""" > '"'
That's an empty string delimited by ‘"’; followed by a double-quote character, escaped, delimited by ‘"’; followed by two more empty strings. They concatenate to a single one-character string. Equivalent to "" + "\"" + "" + "" without the ‘+’ operations. > If nobody gets the answer, I shall reveal all later. My interpretation may not be how the language defines it; but it does match the result! -- \ “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, | `\ when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still | _o__) more complicated.” —Paul Anderson | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list