Python gotcha of the day

[Dan Sommers]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:08:30 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings:

> But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear:
> 
> py> """\""""""
> '"'

That's (a) a triple quoted string containing a single escaped quote,
followed by (b) a quoted empty string.  The two consecutive strings are
concatenated into a single string.

(Too many years of shell programming to miss this one!)

Dan