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  Fix Issue 10303: a small clarification in the tutorial.
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@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ several ways. They can be enclosed in single quotes or double quotes::
>>> '"Isn\'t," she said.'
'"Isn\'t," she said.'
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
double quotes if the string contains a single quote and no double quotes, else
it's enclosed in single quotes. The :keyword:`print` statement produces a more
readable output for such input strings.
String literals can span multiple lines in several ways. Continuation lines can
be used, with a backslash as the last character on the line indicating that the
next line is a logical continuation of the line::