Using quotation marks inside quotation marks

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When I want to do a print command in Python and I need to use quotation marks  I don t know how to do it without closing the string    For instance   print    a word that needs quotation marks      But when I try to do what I did above  I end up closing the string and I can t put the word I need between quotation marks   How can I do that

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You need to escape it   Using Python 3 print function    gt  gt  gt  print  quot The boy said   quot Hello   quot  to the girl quot   The boy said  quot Hello  quot  to the girl  gt  gt  gt  print  Her name  s Jenny    Her name s Jenny   See the python page for string literals

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You could do this in one of three ways   Use single and double quotes together       print   quot A word that needs quotation marks quot         quot A word that needs quotation marks quot    Escape the double quotes within the string       print  quot   quot A word that needs quotation marks  quot  quot        quot A word that needs quotation marks quot     Use triple-quoted strings       print  quot  quot  quot   quot A word that needs quotation marks quot   quot  quot  quot        quot A word that needs quotation marks quot

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I m surprised nobody has mentioned explicit conversion flag yet  gt  gt  gt  print    r   format  a word that needs quotation marks     a word that needs quotation marks   The flag  r is a shorthand of the repr   built-in function1  It is used to print the object representation  object   repr     instead of object   str      There is an interesting side-effect though   gt  gt  gt  print  quot   r   t   r   t   r   t   r  quot  format  quot Buzz  quot    Buzz quot     quot Buzz quot    Buzz     quot Buzz  quot        Buzz quot        Buzz        Buzz   Notice how different composition of quotation marks are handled differenty so that it fits a valid string representation of a Python object 2   1 Correct me if anybody knows otherwise  2 The question s original example  quot   quot word quot   quot  is not a valid representation in Python

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Use the literal escape character    print  Here is    a quote       The character basically means ignore the semantic context of my next charcter  and deal with it in its literal sense

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When you have several words like this which you want to concatenate in a string  I recommend using format or f-strings which increase readability dramatically  in my opinion     To give an example   s    a word that needs quotation marks  s2    another word    Now you can do  print       and       format s  s2     which will print   a word that needs quotation marks  and  another word    As of Python 3 6 you can use   print f   s   and   s2       yielding the same output

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One case which is prevalent in duplicates is the requirement to use quotes for external processes   A workaround for that is to not use a shell  which removes the requirement for one level of quoting   os system    awk   foo    print  bar            filename    can usefully be replaced with  subprocess call   awk     foo    print  bar      filename      which also fixes the bug that shell metacharacters in filename would need to be escaped from the shell  which the original code failed to do  but without a shell  no need for that    Of course  in the vast majority of cases  you don t want or need an external process at all   with open filename  as fh      for line in fh          if  foo  in line              print  bar

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You could also try string addition  print          a word that needs quotation marks

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This worked for me in IDLE Python 3 8 2 print     quot A word with quotation marks quot       Triple single quotes seem to allow you to include your double quotes as part of the string

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Python accepts both   and   as quote marks  so you could do this as    gt  gt  gt  print   A word that needs quotation marks    A word that needs quotation marks    Alternatively  just escape the inner  s   gt  gt  gt  print    A word that needs quotation marks     A word that needs quotation marks

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in Python 3 2 2 on Windows   print     A word that needs quotation marks          is ok  I think it is the enhancement of Python interpretor

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