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Re: Quotation Ugliness

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Date 2014-11-27 02:07 +1100
Subject Re: Quotation Ugliness
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.16330.1417014485.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2014-11-26 15:45, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>> Tim Chase writes:
>> >   bash$ echo // hello
>> >   hello
>>
>> Where did the // go?
>
> The bad-copy-and-paste gremlins ate them :-o
>
> Good catch. :)
>

I was searching the ol' memory banks, trying to figure out if there
was some way to tell the internal 'echo' command to use slash instead
of dash (maybe for DOS/Windows people??), in which case that would be
parsed as "echo -- hello" and would indeed simply echo "hello".

ChrisA

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Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 18:18 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-25 18:40 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:18 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 12:32 +1100
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:00 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:00 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:18 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 11:44 +1100
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:20 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:20 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-25 19:44 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:01 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:01 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-26 12:54 +1100
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:04 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:04 -0600
      Using a password with ‘sudo’ (was: Quotation Ugliness) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-26 18:02 +1100
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 18:10 +1100
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:59 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:59 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 06:56 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-11-26 15:45 +0200
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 01:37 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 08:26 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:07 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:09 +1100
            Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:36 -0600
            Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:36 -0600
              Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:48 +1100
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:55 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 11:00 -0500
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:02 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:02 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 03:13 +1100
                Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 11:16 -0500
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-26 16:45 +0000
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:55 -0600
              Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 10:53 -0500
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:58 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:58 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:06 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 09:23 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-27 07:24 +1100
      Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 09:12 -0500
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:02 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:02 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 10:16 -0500

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