#1530012: move TQS section before raw strings.

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Georg Brandl 2009-03-31 20:56:32 +00:00
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commit 186188d89d
1 changed files with 14 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -199,21 +199,6 @@ the following::
several lines of text just as you would do in C.
Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is significant.
If we make the string literal a "raw" string, however, the ``\n`` sequences are
not converted to newlines, but the backslash at the end of the line, and the
newline character in the source, are both included in the string as data. Thus,
the example::
hello = r"This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text much as you would do in C."
print hello
would print::
This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text much as you would do in C.
Or, strings can be surrounded in a pair of matching triple-quotes: ``"""`` or
``'''``. End of lines do not need to be escaped when using triple-quotes, but
they will be included in the string. ::
@ -230,6 +215,20 @@ produces the following output::
-h Display this usage message
-H hostname Hostname to connect to
If we make the string literal a "raw" string, ``\n`` sequences are not converted
to newlines, but the backslash at the end of the line, and the newline character
in the source, are both included in the string as data. Thus, the example::
hello = r"This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text much as you would do in C."
print hello
would print::
This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text much as you would do in C.
The interpreter prints the result of string operations in the same way as they
are typed for input: inside quotes, and with quotes and other funny characters
escaped by backslashes, to show the precise value. The string is enclosed in