On 13 March 2010 18:33, Ray Parrish <c...@cmc.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting the following - > >>>> String = """<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray's Links</a>""" >>>> String > '<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray\'s Links</a>' > > Note the magically appearing back slash in my result string.
It is not really there. When you have a single quote in a single quote string it need to be escaped with a backslash. Simulary a double quote in a double quote string. The triple quote string does this for you. When you write the string to a file the backslash will "magically" disappear. > Now I tiry to escape the single quote. > >>>> String = """<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray\'s Links</a>""" >>>> String > '<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray\'s Links</a>' > > Once again the unwanted back slash appears. See above single quotes in single quote string need to be escaped. >>>> NewString = """'""" >>>> NewString > "'" > Hmmm, no back slash this time... Correct, here you have a single quote in a double quote string. >>>> String = """<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray""" + """'""" + """s >>>> Links</a>""" >>>> String > '<a href="http://www.rayslinks.com";>Ray\'s Links</a>' > > Why did quoting the single quote work in NewString when I triple quoted just > the single quote, but not in the other examples where the result shows a > back slash before my singe quote in String? > > Is there a proper way to do this? You are trying to solve something that is not really a problem. What is however is your usage of a single quote in html text. You need to replace it with ' or ‘. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
