On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:14:44 +0100, grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On May 24, 11:47 am, Hans Müller <heint...@web.de> wrote:
Try this:
print "\\"
\ is the escape character, it masks the meaning of the next chararcter.
If you write print "\" python tries to print " (the meaning of " as
the string delimiter is beeing masked) and finds no closing "
This is why you got the error.
So something like
"\"
changes the meaning of " ? How? Does it just shift the ASCII bit(s)?
No. There is a fixed set of "escape sequences" as they're called.
The Fine Manual lists them here:
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals
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