Re: [Nano-devel] triple quoted strings

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon 16 Jun 2014 22:56:01 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014, at 19:23, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> > I'm currently frustrated by the
> > seemingly complete brokenness of python triple quoted strings,
> 
> What is it doing that you don't expect?  Do you have an example file?
> 
> There is bug #26762 (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26762)
> that puts the finger on the spot, I think:  «Nano ignores
> repeated occurences of start until it sees the end. This
> is ok for /*.../*...*/ but not for """..."""...""".»

i run into it most when the docstring is using % expansion:

def foo():
        s = """blah blah %(here)s
foo foo""" % {'here': 'cow'}

the regex looks for """$, and since this """ isn't at the end of the line, it 
never turns off :(
-mike

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