[Tutor] Have a very simple question

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> Why does 'doesn\'t' translate to "doesn't" ? This is in the Python
> tutorial but it doesn't say why this happens.

Coz \ means that the next character will be treated 
literally. The next character is ' so Python does not 
see it as the end of the string but as a character 
within the string.

But its more usual to achieve the same effect 
using different quotes:

>>>str1 = 'doesn\'t'
>>>str2 = "doesn't"
>>>str1 == str2   # should be true
1
>>>

HTH,

Alan g