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On 27 Dec 2011 01:10:19 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:


>The only time you should backslash-escape a quotation mark is if you need 
>to include both sorts in a single string:
>
>print "Python has both single ' and double \" quotation marks."
>print 'Python has both single \' and double " quotation marks.'
>

	You can get by without the backslash in this situation too, by using
triple quoting:

print """Python has both single ' and double " quotation marks."""
(substitute ''' for """ if it looks better to you, as long as you use
the same marker at both ends. I find """ clearer, ''' could be a " and '
packed tightly in some fonts, "', whereas """ can only be one construct)
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