Python doesn't recognize quote types

[Nicolas Dandrimont]

* wxPythoner at gmail.com <wxPythoner at gmail.com> [2008-05-10 13:56:39 -0700]:

> There's a thing that bugs me in Python. Look at this...
> 
> >>> print "Testing\"
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> 
> 
> Please focus on the part of the error message that states "while
> scanning single-quoted string". How can Python claim it scanned a
> single-quoted string when I fed it with a double-quoted string? Is
> quote type (single quote and double quote) recognition not implemented
> in Python?

The "single-quoted string" (e.g. 'foo' or "bar") is so named by 
opposition to triple-quoted (e.g.  '''foo''' or """bar""") strings.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont

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