"david lazaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 

> should say Game Over, but its cutting Over in half. 

As you know backslashes signal a line continuation.
To put a literal backslash in a string you need to double it:@

print 'here is a \\'

Or put an r in front of the quotes:

print r'here is a \ too'

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld

_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Reply via email to