[Tutor] how do I input " as part of a string?

[Robert H. Haener IV]

elis aeris wrote:
> def send(string):
>     f.write("send( \"%s\"\n' % string )" )
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> f = open ("data.ini")
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> send("string is very nice and all those things are pretty cool")
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> this one is wrong, i guess i didn't ask you how to add things after this
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> \"%s\"\n' % title)

It appears that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how to define a function, your code calls the function in the definition of the function:


def send(string):
    f.write("send(...)")


Do you see how the function depends on itself in order to define itself?  This is the same mistake you made in a earlier message (the one you sent a little over 6 hours ago), in my response to that message I corrected the mistake but forgot to point it out.

Here is the corrected version of your example, note that I have changed the opening quote of f.write() to a singe quote in order to avoid confusion with regard to the escaped double quotes:


def send(string):
    f.write('\"%s\"\n' % string)

f = open("data.ini","w")

send("string is very nice and all those things are pretty cool")


-Robert