Animate a word with an apostrophe

clairemu

Hi !
I'm trying to animate with drawbot a French word with an apostrophe "d'étude". Do you know how I can do that in the code ? Because it takes the apostrophe as the end of the word and animate only the "d" ! ...
Thank you

Craig

I would try typing a backslash \ before the apostrophe. I think that's the escape character Python uses to indicate the ensuing character is still part of the string.

frederik

could you provide an example where a word is split at the ' mark?

Craig

It would also probably work to use double quotes as your delimiters. I think

text("d'etude", (x, y))

works but

text('d'etude', (x, y))

won't.

frederik

see the python courseware about strings: https://www.drawbot.com/content/courseware.html#strings

you can not have the same quote mark inside a string and to indicate a string.

print("d'étude")  
print('d"étude') 
print('d\'étude') # escaping '

good luck!