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| author | Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha@bubblenet.be> | 2022-05-08 23:20:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-05-08 23:20:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 2888b1107fd0b43cc800987a00155bdbeacdb23a (patch) | |
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pdb docs: workaround for double semicolon in strings (#17011)
see https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/172
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst index ca59576..383c3ad 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst @@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ Multiple commands may be entered on a single line, separated by ``;;``. (A single ``;`` is not used as it is the separator for multiple commands in a line that is passed to the Python parser.) No intelligence is applied to separating the commands; the input is split at the first ``;;`` pair, even if it is in the -middle of a quoted string. +middle of a quoted string. A workaround for strings with double semicolons +is to use implicit string concatenation ``';'';'`` or ``";"";"``. .. index:: pair: .pdbrc; file |