Cannot create a string with “@” symbol inside the text in Pydev

Question

I'm trying to create a simple string like:

test = "abc@email.com" in Pydev but it automatically interpret "@" as a special symbol and the statement cannot pe done. When I focus on the variable in Pydev, I can see: test = "abc* @email.com" * instead of test = "abc@email.com"

Anyone has any idea why I have this issue?

If I run the statement in windows command prompt python, then it is correctly assigned.

Does it have any relation with pylint?

Thanks,

Answer 1

The only way I was able to reproduce similar result was with unclosed string before that, which is obviously a syntax error. Otherwise I've never seen any problems with string literals containing @ while using PyDev (with PyLint).

Answer 2

try %@ ?

this might be your answer. Not a whole lot out there about special characters in python.