[Tutor] Writing to CSV string containing quote and comma

[Alan Gauld]

On 09/12/13 23:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Python has two different quote characters ' and " so you can use one for
> delimiters and the other inside the string:

And if you need both you can also use triple quotes.

> If you need both, you can escape the one that matches the delimiter:
>
> s = 'this string contains both \' single and " double quotes'

Or using triple quotes:

 > s = '''this string contains both ' single and " double quotes'''

Python will then do the escaping for you.

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