Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around)

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around)
Date	2011-12-27 16:38 -0500
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On 12/27/2011 1:04 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:

> But this brings up a very important topic. Why do we even need triple
> quote string literals to span multiple lines? Good question, and one i
> have never really mused on until now.

I have, and the reason I thought of is that people, including me, too 
ofter forget or accidentally fail to properly close a string literal, 
and type something like 'this is a fairly long single line string"
and wonder why they get a syntax error lines later, or, in interactive 
mode, why the interpreter does not respond to a newline.

Color coding editors make it easier to catch such errors, but they were 
less common in 1991. And there is still uncolored interactive mode.

There may also be a technical reason as to how the lexer works.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> - 2011-12-26 14:23 -0800
  Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-12-26 14:48 -0800
    Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-27 10:05 +1100
  Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-27 01:10 +0000
    Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-12-27 09:53 -0500
      Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-12-27 10:04 -0800
        Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-12-28 08:23 +1100
        Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-27 16:38 -0500
          Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2011-12-27 16:57 -0800
            Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 04:54 +1100
        Re: Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-27 16:38 -0500

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