Python, are you ill?

[John Henderson]

wxPythoner at gmail.com wrote:

> If you are in the interactive prompt of the Python interpreter
> and you do this
> 
> print """Testing\"""   or   print '''Testing\'''
> 
> you get three dots [...] as if Python expects a code block. If
> you press Enter, you get three dots again, and again, and
> again... You can't get out of the code block with pressing the
> Enter key; you have to press Ctrl+Z (if you're in Linux) in
> order to get out of that code block, which then throws you
> back to the Linux command line, but before that it prints this
> line
> 
> [1]+  Stopped                 python
> 
> 
> If you do
> 
> print "Testing\"   or   print 'Testing\'
> 
> you get an error, but not of you use the triple quotes. Is
> that a bug in the interpreter perhaps?

>>> print """testing\"""
"""
testing"""

John