Putting quotes in wysiwyg strings

[Bill Baxter]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> You missed off
> 
>     r"foo" \" r"bar";

Thanks.  Didn't know that would work.

>> It would be a lot nicer if one could just do:
>>
>>     r"foo\"bar";
> 
> 
> Then how would one put a backslash at the end of a wysiwyg string?

Yeh, using "" for " would be better, as Lionello pointed out.  The only 
problem is that it changes the meaning of r"""" from an empty string 
(currently) to a string

Python has r-strings too, and their rules are really wacky.  \" escapes 
the quote charater, *but* the backslash still appears in the output. 
And r"\" is not possible.

At least D's rule is easy to remember!

> I see now.  Do you read the input line by line?  If so, you could detect 
> whether each line contains '"' or '`', and switch between r"..." and 
> `...` at the beginning of the line if necessary.  You'll only need such 
> messy code as the above for lines that contain both characters.

I think I should just accept that raw strings are not the right tool for 
this job.  I'll just stick with regular strings as the default and hope 
for Perl-ish "here documents" someday.

--bb