single-quoted string conversion to triple-quoted string

[Bengt Richter]

On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:45:32 GMT, "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

>"robin and jim" <robinjim at earthlink.net>
>> Is there a way to convert a single quoted string to a triple quoted
>string?
>>
>> For example, given:
>>
>> ''' abc %d xyz '''
>>
>> the result of ''' abc %d xyz''' % 10 is:
>>
>> ' abc 10 xyz '
>>
>> which is a single quoted string.
>>
>> I would like to convert the result to a triple-quoted string.
>>
>>
>
>What do you want to do with it?  Once a string is created, it doesn't
>matter which style quoting was used -- it's simply a string.
>
True, but notice:

 >>> """ ' """
 " ' "
 >>> """ " """
 ' " '
 >>> """ ' " """
 ' \' " '
 >>>

perhaps he would have liked """ ' " """ back instead of ' \' " '
Seems like just as valid as switching the other quotes, e.g., a quick hack
to simulate extending the quote-choosing of repr:

 >>> def repr3(x):
 ...     rep = repr(x)
 ...     if rep.find('\\n')<0 and rep[1:-1].find("\\'")<0: return rep
 ...     rep=rep[1:-1].replace('\\n','\n')
 ...     rep=rep.replace("\\'","'")
 ...     return '"""' + rep + '"""'
 ...
 >>> tests = [""" ' """, """ " """, """ ' " """, """Line 1
 ... Line 2"""]
 >>> for t in tests: print 'plain: %s\n repr: %s\nrepr3: %s\n'% (t, repr(t), repr3(t))
 ...
 plain:  '
  repr: " ' "
 repr3: " ' "

 plain:  "
  repr: ' " '
 repr3: ' " '

 plain:  ' "
  repr: ' \' " '
 repr3: """ ' " """

 plain: Line 1
 Line 2
  repr: 'Line 1\nLine 2'
 repr3: """Line 1
 Line 2"""

Regards,
Bengt Richter