On 2018-03-15 07:11, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> py> """\"""""" >> '"' > > That's an empty string delimited by ‘"’; followed by a double-quote > character, escaped, delimited by ‘"’; followed by two more empty > strings. They concatenate to a single one-character string. > > Equivalent to > > "" + "\"" + "" + "" > > without the ‘+’ operations. > >> If nobody gets the answer, I shall reveal all later. > > My interpretation may not be how the language defines it; but it does > match the result! >
Then riddle me this: if """\"""""" is equivalent to "" + "\"" + "" + "", then why isn't """ \""" """ equivalent to "" + " \"" + " " + ""? As I said earlier: I initially thought the way you're thinking, but got stuck at that question and had to back-track my reasoning :-) T -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
