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)
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