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Re: backslash in triple quoted string

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: backslash in triple quoted string
Date	2025-05-11 20:47 +1000
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On Sun, 11 May 2025 at 20:38, Left Right via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
> My comment was more of an irony really. It's plenty obvious that the
> grammar is a lie. The reason is that it's tedious to put the actual
> intender rules into the grammar, and so whoever wrote the grammar
> decided to cut corners. But, the grammar is supposed to be the
> authoritative source for how the language is parsed, that's why even
> though it's clear that the grammar is a lie, blaming whoever doesn't
> follow it makes it ironic.

Have you ever built a language parser? I'm going to guess you haven't.

ChrisA

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Re: backslash in triple quoted string Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 20:47 +1000

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