On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:30, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:40:37PM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > > > >>> print "\" > > [SyntaxError: ...] <-- surprise > > Just curious: what happens with > > >>> print "\"" > > >>> "\"" '"' The internal double quote is escaped by the backslash. The result is just another way to write the same without need to escape: '"' (single, double, single quote) And if you "print" it, you get: >>> print "\"" " If I am not wrong, it is the same as Racket, except for the representation that the prompt spits out for "\" " . Although Python's motto is "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/>", the language itself does one thing in two different ways, there are actually more than 2 ways to represent that string. You see some more "inconsistency" if you try to represent a single quote as string: >>> "'" "'" This time the internal representation of the string uses " instead of '. []'s Rodolfo Carvalho
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