Sander Sweers wrote:
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
Thanks for your quick answer. I'll accept that there will not be a back
slash in my file when I write it then.
I was not aware that single quotes were bad news in HTML. I don't think
I've ever experienced a problem using them myself, but will adjust, and
start using the & code for it instead.
Later, Ray Parrish
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