On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> What greatly puzzles me is that "GAME" prints correctly, but "OVER" >> does not. Why? > > > Wow! This is a tricky question, but so obvious in hindsight. > > The problem is that you have three lines, all in "OVER", that end with > a backslash. In Python string literals, backslash-newline is interpreted > as a line continuation, so that the next physical line is joined to the > current line. Ah, ha!! It is obvious now that you pointed it out! Many thanks! This was driving me bonkers tonight. > Two solutions are: > > * Add a space to the end of the backslashes. The space is invisible, and > some editors may strip it out, so this is a fragile solution. In my efforts to understand what was going on, I discovered that PyScripter's (My current editor that I am playing around with.) default setting is to trim all line-ending spaces, running into exactly what you say. > * Change the string to a raw string, r"""...""" so that backslash > interpolation is turned off. And I suppose I could also escape the backslash (\\), too. But your suggestion sounds the best. It is funny in retrospect: If I had wanted to create a newline character I would do the correct thing, but seeing the backslashes as part of a picture, even after I went into PyScripter's options and turned on ALL special characters, I was still blind to the fact that a \n was staring me in the face. You are one sharp dude! As seem to be just about all of you... Many thanks! boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
