Re: escaping quotes

John Salerno wrote:

I'm reading through the tutorial and found this in section 3:

>>> '"Isn\'t," she said.'
'"Isn\'t," she said.'

Why doesn't the escape sequence work in this case?

because the interactive prompt echos the result back to you as
a Python literal, where possible. compare

'"Isn\'t," she said.'
'"Isn\'t," she said.'

with

print '"Isn\'t," she said.'
"Isn't," she said.

(this is explained a little later in the chapter you're reading)

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