Quotes

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by Chad Netzer 
> On Friday 20 December 2002 10:05, Tetsuo wrote:
> > All your suggestions can be broken if the outermost quotes
>     are
> > the same as something in the text...
>
> If you are algorithmically generating your strings (so that you
> don't necessarily know what quote characters are used inside them
> ahead of time), I think the best thing would be to always expand
> all instances of " or ', within the string, to \" and \'
> respectively.  Then you can use any style of outer quote you want
> and it shouldn't break.  And I think it is a clearer style than
> using chr().
>
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Did you read the rest of my post?

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