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leblancfg on Sept 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Write a Spelling Corrector

Couldn't it cause issues with "object definition" code in REPLs and editors, and interfere with documentation generators, i.e. [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/)?

xapata on Sept 8, 2016 [–]

I'd be surprised if so. Most of those tools rely on the built-in parser, which treats all string literals similarly.

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