[Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem

[Roelof Wobben]

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> From: steve at pearwood.info
> To: tutor at python.org
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:30:01 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem
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> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:38:18 pm Roelof Wobben wrote:
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>>>> Strip ('"'') does not work.
>>>> Still this message : SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string
>>>> literal
> [...]
>> I understand what you mean but we're talking about a text-file which
>> will be read in a string. So I can't escape the quotes. As far as I
>> know I can't control how Python is reading a text-file with quotes.
>
> The text file has nothing to do with this. The text file is fine. The
> error is in the strings that YOU type, not the text file.
>
> Strings must have MATCHING quotation marks:
>
> This is okay: "abcd"
> So is this: 'abcd'
>
> But this is not: "abcd'
>
> You need to *look carefully* at strings you type and make sure that the
> start and end quotes match. Likewise you can't insert the SAME
> quotation mark in a string unless you escape it first:
>
> This is okay: "'Hello,' he said."
> So is this: '"Goodbye," she replied.'
>
> But this is not: 'He said "I can't see you."'
>
> But this is okay: 'He said "I can\'t see you."'
>
>
>
>
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> Steven D'Aprano
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Oke, 
 
I see the problem.
 
When I have this sentence : `'Tis so,' said the Duchess:  `and the moral of that is--"Oh,
'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'

And I do string.strip() the output will be :
 
`'This and that one does not fit your explanation.
So I have to strip everything before I strip it. 
 
Roelof