[Python-Dev] this python string literals documentation couldn't explain me: single quote presence inside double quoted string and viceversa. Can Anyone explain me? (original) (raw)

Alok Nayak aloknayak29 at gmail.com
Wed May 8 13:56:18 CEST 2013

This python string literals documentation<http://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals>couldn't explain: single quote presence inside double quoted string and viceversa.

I think both double quoted string and single quoted string need to be defined differently for representing the 'stringliteral' lexical definition.

shortstringchar ::= <any source character except "" or newline or the quote>

here in this definition 'the quote' isn't specific whether single (') or double (").

I asked this question here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16435233/this-python-string-literals-documentation-couldnt-explain-me-single-quote-pres, . I was advised to ask here

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