Python Gotcha's?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Albert van der Horst
<albert at spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I still think the doubling convention of Algol68 is superior:
> """Help me Obiwan,"" she said, ""You're my only hope!"""
>
> No special treatment of any other symbol than the quote itself.
> A quoting symbol is such a devious syntactic element that I rather
> not have two ( " ' ) or even three ( " ' \ )

Trouble with that is the forest of backslashes that you get with
non-raw strings containing regular expressions that look for Windows
paths. One backslash in the path becomes two in the regexp and four in
the string.

ChrisA