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Vedr: What does """ means in python?

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Date 2014-02-09 05:49 +0000
From Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no>
Subject Vedr: What does """ means in python?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.6570.1391925165.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Gisle V.


"Computers are useless. They can only give answers"  --Pablo Picasso
Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> For SQL? Ignore the extra spaces, it's a free-form language. The only
> reason to consider dedent() would be if you're worried about how your
> log files will look. The actual execution of SQL won't be bothered by
> newlines and spaces/tabs.

Regrading handy uses of ''', you learned me one trick when using Python 
code in a Windows .bat file:


  rem = '''
  @echo off
  echo This is 
batch
  \python32\python %0
  echo All done
  exit /b
  rem '''
  import 
sys
  print("This is Python")
  for i,p in 
enumerate(sys.path):
     print('sys.path[%2d]: %s' % (i, p))
  print("Python 
done")

You'll have a variable in Python called 'rem' which contains all 
your
batch code :) It exploits the fact that 'rem' makes a 
one-line
comment, but the triple quotes go across multiple lines.

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What does """ means in python? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 06:02 -0800
  Re: What does """ means in python? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-08 09:08 -0500
    Re: What does """ means in python? Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 19:55 +0000
      Re: What does """ means in python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 08:40 +1100
      Vedr: What does """ means in python? Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2014-02-09 05:49 +0000
        Re: Vedr: What does """ means in python? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-10 10:50 +0000

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