Python gotcha of the day
Bill
WhoKnows at newsguy.com
Wed Mar 14 01:16:20 EDT 2018
Dan Sommers wrote:
> 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.
The last part stumped me! : )
>
> (Too many years of shell programming to miss this one!)
>
> Dan
>
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