John Salerno wrote: > I'm reading through the tutorial and found this in section 3: > > >>> '"Isn\'t," she said.' > '"Isn\'t," she said.' > > Why doesn't the escape sequence work in this case?
because the interactive prompt echos the result back to you as a Python literal, where possible. compare >>> '"Isn\'t," she said.' '"Isn\'t," she said.' with >>> print '"Isn\'t," she said.' "Isn't," she said. (this is explained a little later in the chapter you're reading) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
