[Tutor] Have a very simple question

[Matthew Navarre]

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 12:24 pm, Paul Harwood wrote:
> Why does 'doesn\'t' translate to "doesn't" ? This is in the Python
> tutorial but it doesn't say why this happens.

The backslash 'escapes' the apostrophe from ending the string. Since we u=
se=20
the same ascii character for both single quote and apostrophe python woul=
d=20
think the apostrophe was the terminating quote for the string. So the=20
backslash tells python to take the next character literally.

Another solution would be to use double quotes to delimit the string i.e.
>>>print "dosen't"
gives the same result as
>>>print 'dosen\'t'



OK,
MCN
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