"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9cts360191p at news2.newsguy.com... > > repr(repr(repr(repr(repr('"'))))) > `````'"'````` should be the equivalent in 13 characters, I Oh, I always wonder what for this perlish hack is exists in python. Now I see... :-) WBR, Alexander Semenov