"Jorge Godoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Edward Elliott wrote:
>

>
> You can use either """ or '''.  I don't keep changing them in my code, so 
> I
> can always use the other type (usually I use " so for commenting things 
> out
> I'd use ') to do that.
>

Try that on this code:

a=3
a=a*a
b='''This is a
    very long
    long
    text'''
print a


like:

a=3
'''
a=a*a
b='''This is a
    very long
    long
    text'''
'''
print a



raises SyntaxError 


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