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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-11-08 02:12:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-11-08 02:12:57 (GMT) |
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r86310 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-11-08 09:53:13 +0800 (Mon, 08 Nov 2010) | 3 lines
Fix Issue 10303: a small clarification in the tutorial.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 5af90b3..6d8f890 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -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:: |