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WIP: String literals
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Use correct Pygments lexer for plain text
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f-strings can only be concatenated with themselves
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
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Expand Up @@ -496,7 +496,11 @@ String and Bytes literals
String literals are text enclosed in single quotes (``'``) or double
quotes (``"``). For example:

.. code-block:: plain
.. This is Python code, but we turn off highlighting because as of this
writing, highlighted strings don't look good when there's no code
surrounding them.

.. code-block:: text

"spam"
'eggs'
Expand All @@ -505,7 +509,7 @@ The quote used to start the literal also terminates it, so a string literal
can only contain the other quote (except with escape sequences, see below).
For example:

.. code-block:: plain
.. code-block:: text

'Say "Hello", please.'
"Don't do that!"
Expand All @@ -531,7 +535,7 @@ either ``'`` or ``"``.)

For example:

.. code-block:: plain
.. code-block:: text

"""This is a triple-quoted string with "quotes" inside."""

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -560,7 +564,7 @@ String prefixes
String literals can have an optional :dfn:`prefix` that influences how the literal
is parsed, for example:

.. code-block:: plain
.. code-block:: python

b"data"
f'{result=}'
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