Oke, Can this also be the same problem. In the text is this : 'tis is represent as "'this And this part is represent as part. Roelof
________________________________ > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:41:28 +0100 > From: wpr...@gmail.com > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem > > > > On 14 September 2010 11:09, James Mills >> > wrote: > $ python > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 13 2010, 14:03:16) > [GCC 4.4.4 (CRUX)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> s = "foo\"bar'" >>>> s > 'foo"bar\'' > > I'd like to point something out here. Typing "s" as James showed here > at the prompt outputs a version of the string that Python will > understand if fed again, consequently it's encoded to do the same > escaping of characters as you would have to do if you put that > expression into your python source yourself. If however you entered: > > print s > > ... then Python would've print the value of s as it really is, withou > any escape characters or anything else, e.g.: > >>>> print s > foo"bar' > > So, even though you see a \' in the output posted by James above, the \ > that was output by Python isn't actually part of the string (e.g. it's > not really there as such), it was only output that way by Python to > disambiguate the value of the string. > > So, at the risk of belaboring this point to death, if you do: > > s = '\'\'\'' > > then the contents of the string s in memory is ''' > > The string does not contain the slashes. The slashes are only there to > help you make Python understand that the quotes must not be interpreted > as the end of the string, but rather as part of the string. You could > get the exact same result by doing: > > s = "'''" > > Here there's no ambiguity and consequently no need for slashes since > the string is delineated by double quotes and not single quotes. > > Hope that helps. > > Walter > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - > Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
