Quotes

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Dec 20 00:40:55 EST 2002


In article <2304302.1040355303 at dbforums.com>,
 Tetsuo <member at dbforums.com> wrote:

> print "The book is called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.""
> 
> How do I get the user to see
> 
> 
> The book is called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

The easy solution is:
print 'The book is called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".'

(period changed to US outside-the-quote style to make it easier to see 
how the quote marks nest.)

-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/



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