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| 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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