puzzle/joke ;-)

Fri May 4 03:36:56 EDT 2001

Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:

> What is the shortest Python operator to output this:
[snip]
> (for the purposes of illustration, newlines are inserted. Original
> string was without them:
> 
> '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\'\''

Looks like messing with re.escape() starting from"\'", concatenating
and then using print. But I don't know where the double quotes come
from.

  Harald Kirsch

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