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String double quoted fatal problem #48414

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cliffdover88 mannequin opened this issue Oct 21, 2008 · 2 comments
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String double quoted fatal problem #48414

cliffdover88 mannequin opened this issue Oct 21, 2008 · 2 comments
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cliffdover88 mannequin commented Oct 21, 2008

BPO 4164
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cliffdover88 mannequin commented Oct 21, 2008

Hi

I have a problem with python 2.6, when i try to process strings with
triple-quoted string literal i get an error:

a='a''a' #1 double quoted Ok

a='a''''a' # 2 Ok

a= 'a''''''a' # 3 doble quoted -- SyntaxError: EOF while scanning
triple-quoted string literal

a= 'a''''''''a' # 4 ok

a='a''''''''''a' # 5 same error impair doble quoted

a='a''''''''''''a' # 6 Ok...............

a... #7 error..................

@cliffdover88 cliffdover88 mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir build The build process and cross-build labels Oct 21, 2008
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All your samples explain easily if you consider that two adjacent string
literals are joined together. (You seem to consider that "double quote"
is a way to insert a quote character. It's not; Python is not Pascal or
SQL)

Your first two examples become:
a='a''a' two adjacent strings == 'aa'
a='a''''a' three adjacent strings ('a' + '' + 'a') == 'aa'

The third is an error:
a='a''''''a' one string ('a') followed by the beginning of a "triple
quoted string" (''') which content starts with the characters (''a') but
does not have a matching (''') to finish the string, hence the Syntax
error.

... and so on. Please have a look at http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals

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