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Clarify for quoting examples

The example of the use of backslash to escape a double-quote makes
more sense when used inside a double-quoted string. If the string is
quoted with single quotes, one could of course just write 'wt"f'
withouth requiring any escaping.
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Lars Kellogg-Stedman 2020-01-19 10:19:17 -05:00
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- In a usual python string, the backslash is used to escape characters that may have a special meaning (like single-quote, double-quote, and the backslash itself).
```py
>>> 'wt\"f'
>>> "wt\"f"
'wt"f'
```
- In a raw string literal (as indicated by the prefix `r`), the backslashes pass themselves as is along with the behavior of escaping the following character.