On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:08:30 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings:
> But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear: > > py> """\"""""" > '"' That's (a) a triple quoted string containing a single escaped quote, followed by (b) a quoted empty string. The two consecutive strings are concatenated into a single string. (Too many years of shell programming to miss this one!) Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list