Python gotcha of the day

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> py> """\""""""
> '"'

That's an empty string delimited by ‘"’; followed by a double-quote
character, escaped, delimited by ‘"’; followed by two more empty
strings. They concatenate to a single one-character string.

Equivalent to

    "" + "\"" + "" + ""

without the ‘+’ operations.

> If nobody gets the answer, I shall reveal all later.

My interpretation may not be how the language defines it; but it does
match the result!

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Ben Finney