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Triple quotes

creation

Triple-quoted strings ("""...""" or '''...''') may contain line breaks and quotes with no escaping. Used for multi-line text and for docstrings.

Syntax

"""текст"""
'''текст'''

Everything inside is taken literally — including the newline right after the opening quotes and the indentation of the surrounding code — so multi-line text written inside a function usually carries leading spaces on every line. A trailing backslash on the first line swallows the initial newline, and textwrap.dedent() strips the indentation. A triple-quoted string becomes a docstring only when it is the first statement of a module, class or function; anywhere else it is just a value that is computed and thrown away.

Examples

s = """строка 1\nстрока 2"""
print(len(s))        # → 17

def foo():
    """Докстринг функции."""
    pass
print(foo.__doc__)   # → Докстринг функции.
s2 = """можно \"кавычки\" внутри"""
print("кавычки" in s2)  # → True
print(type(s2))      # → <class 'str'>

See also

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