From: Chris <chris@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T05:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, python, perl, ...

In article <3CAB5620.F1D693C1@path.berkeley.edu>,
 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> Chris wrote:
> 
> > Ah, but the real magic of """ is something like:
> > 
> > >>> foo = """<a href="bar.html">here's a single quote mark</a>"""
> > >>> foo
> > "<a href=\"bar.html\">here's a single quote mark</a>"
> 
> What about
> 
> irb(main):001:0> foo = %{<a href="bar.html">here's a single quote
> mark</a>}
> "<a href=\"bar.html\">here's a single quote mark</a>"

You'd still have to escape out any } that might actually occur in the 
string.

Oh well, chalk it up one more of the peculiarities of Python I'm fond of.