[FIXED] How to include a quote in a raw Python string

Issue

Consider:

>>> r"what"ever"
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> r"what\"ever"
'what\\"ever'

So how do we get the quote, but not the slash?

And please don't suggest r'what"ever', because then the question just becomes how do we include both types of quotes?

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Solution

If you want to use double quotes in strings but not single quotes, you can just use single quotes as the delimiter instead:

r'what"ever'

If you need both kinds of quotes in your string, use a triple-quoted string:

r"""what"ev'er"""

If you want to include both kinds of triple-quoted strings in your string (an extremely unlikely case), you can't do it, and you'll have to use non-raw strings with escapes.

Answered By - Adam Rosenfield

Answer Checked By - Pedro (PHPFixing Volunteer)