escaping quotes

[John Salerno]

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?

[Fredrik Lundh]

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>

[John Salerno]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

because the interactive prompt echos the result back to you as
a Python literal, where possible. compare

Ah, of course! I forgot it wasn't 'print'ing it.

Thanks!