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Re: rst and pypandoc

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> And of course, that means you have to escape the backslash if you want
> to have one in the text. But all of this is just for putting *string
> literals* into your source code. If it's not Python source code, these
> rules don't apply. You can read a line of text from the user and it'll
> be unchanged

To put it another way: The source code is not the value itself. The
string value is created *from* the characters in the source code, and
the sequence of characters in the string value may be different.

When the string value comes from somewhere else, it bypasses this
interpretation of source code — because it's not source code!

String literals exist in your Python source code. They are not the same
thing as the string value itself, and the sequence fo characters may be
different.

-- 
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  `\          according to our sole judgement” to the end of any cloud |
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Ben Finney

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rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 07:59 +0000
  Re: rst and pypandoc Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-03-02 12:03 +0100
  Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 07:03 -0500
    Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 12:36 +0000
  Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-02 23:33 +1100
    Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 13:51 +0000
      Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 09:08 -0500
        Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 01:43 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 13:55 -0500
          Re: rst and pypandoc Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-03 06:09 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 14:16 -0500
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:30 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 09:51 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-03 10:18 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 10:32 +1100
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:35 +0000
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:40 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-02 23:08 +0000
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:37 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 10:22 +1100
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:46 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 18:23 -0500
      Re: rst and pypandoc MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 14:37 +0000
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:37 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-03 19:40 +1300
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:50 +0000
              Re: rst and pypandoc Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-04 11:27 +1300
      Re: rst and pypandoc MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 14:40 +0000
      Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 02:09 +1100

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