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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
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Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 16:44:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] pdb docs: workaround for double semicolon in strings
(GH-17011)
see https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/172
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2888b1107fd0b43cc800987a00155bdbeacdb23a)
Co-authored-by: Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha@bubblenet.be>
---
Doc/library/pdb.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
index 13e1a199369..dcd509de56a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ Multiple commands may be entered on a single line, separated by ``;;``. (A
single ``;`` is not used as it is the separator for multiple commands in a line
that is passed to the Python parser.) No intelligence is applied to separating
the commands; the input is split at the first ``;;`` pair, even if it is in the
-middle of a quoted string.
+middle of a quoted string. A workaround for strings with double semicolons
+is to use implicit string concatenation ``';'';'`` or ``";"";"``.
.. index::
pair: .pdbrc; file
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