Avoiding escaping double quotes in a string

Question

Is there a component of Python that allows me to bypass intermediate quotation marks? As in, can you dictate the master start and stop to a print call, so that everything in between the master start and stop is interpreted regardless of what that element originally represents?

print"           ./'..|'.|| |||||\```````  "  '''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\."
                                                                      ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Answer 1

Why not use a triple-quoted string that has """ on each end?

>>> print """           ./'..|'.|| |||||\```````  "  '''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\."""
           ./'..|'.|| |||||\```````  "  '''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.
>>>

Note that you will still need to escape any triple quotes inside the string that match those on each end:

>>> print """ \""" """
 """
>>>

Answer 2

Another approach is to simply put the lines in a plaintext file and then read them in, as I would do in Linux/Unix:

$ cat > my_file.txt
           ./'..|'.|| |||||\```````  "  '''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.
^D <- control-d means end of file input from the command line

Then with Python:

with open('/path/my_file.txt') as f:
    print f.read()

should output:

           ./'..|'.|| |||||\```````  "  '''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.

Answer 3

Just a side note<\/h4>

This does not answer the question. Just saying: Check whether you need an answer to the question above at all.<\/strong>

Instead, you do not need to care, and you should not care, see Python MySQL escape special characters<\/a> , and it might rather be the new aim to avoid the automatic escapes ( How to prevent automatic escaping of special characters in Python<\/a> which is then at the r<\/code> topic again). If possible, you should leave it to a library function to deal with the special characters and pass your string(s) as args (arguments).