How to parse over a Python expr?

Stefan Franke franke at ableton.com
Mon Sep 2 11:30:48 EDT 2002


On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:41:56 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

>Hmm, you're right.  I didn't take into account the corner case where a
>triple-quoted string contains single-quoted strings.  Thanks for
>catching that.  (Fortunately, it's a rare occurrence that has certainly
>never happened in the field -- you'd have to do a triple-quoted string,
>then a single quoted one, _then_ an unbalanced close parenthesis.)

Are you sure? I think a TQS with a single quote inside would be
sufficient to miss the right TQS end:

'''That's all'''

These a 7 single quotes. Parsed as single-quote strings, the last one 
opens a string until EOF.




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