Q: quoting string without escapes

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Jan 31 14:09:10 EST 2005


Xah Lee wrote:

> in Python, is there a way to quote a string as to avoid escaping ' or "
> inside the string?
> 
> i.e. like Perl's q or qq.
> thanks.
> 
>  Xah
>  xah at xahlee.org
>  http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html
> 
Aren't you the guy who's telling the whole world how to write Python and 
Perl? Unusual to find arrogance and humility in such close proximity.

Please stop cross-posting your ill-informed and inflammatory stuff to 
c.l.py and c.l.perl.m. And now I have your attention, the answer to your 
question is ...

     Use triple-quoting.

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