[gjm11]

I'm not sure I understand your exercise. What do you mean by "Python's quoting documentation", and what do you mean by "editing" it?

[bloobloobloo]

> What do you mean by "Python's quoting documentation"

String literals are described by the following lexical definitions:

   stringliteral:   shortstring | longstring
   shortstring:     "'" shortstringitem* "'" | '"' shortstringitem* '"'
   longstring:      "'''" longstringitem* "'''" | '"""' longstringitem* '"""'
   shortstringitem: shortstringchar | escapeseq
   longstringitem:  longstringchar | escapeseq
   shortstringchar: <any ASCII character except "\" or newline or the quote>
   longstringchar:  <any ASCII character except "\">
   escapeseq:       "\" <any ASCII character>

You can't paste that text into a file and write a Python program around it that outputs the same text. You need to encode the quote characters.

More generally, there is no way in (many languages including) Python to treat an arbitrary (yet known) block of data as data.

[b2gills]

For those that don't know you can use `｢` and `｣` to quote anything that does not contain `｣` and Perl 6 won't process it in any way other than storing it as a Str.

If you needed to have `｣` in there you can fall back to `Q{{{{{{…}}}}}}` or `Q:to<END>;␤…␤END␤`

[yorwba]

I was wondering about that, too. Unless `"Python's quoting documentation"` is an easter-egg in "help()" that recursively contains a quoted version of itself, it should be possible to just escape all problematic characters. But maybe that counts as `"editing"`? Not sure.

[bloobloobloo]

> maybe that counts as `"editing"`

how would it not