You can use them anywhere; they're like HERE documents in Perl.
print """first line second line third line"""
Etc.
Actually, Doc strings are just plain strings (you can use single-quoted strings too). They do not interfere with the code because they simply evaluate to themselves.
Ole
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:12:03 +0100, Ollivier Robert roberto+textmate@keltia.freenix.fr wrote:
According to Allan Odgaard:
I actually did not know about triple quoted strings. What are these good for (in PYthon, that is)?
"docstrings" which enables to give a label to a given method.
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