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I'm trying to use docstrings w/ triple-quotes in my Jupyter notebooks using Python 2.7 .

I can disable the autoclose brackets/quotes thing but I'm quite keen on them; major increase in workflow.

Does anyone know how to do triple quotes without over-quoting while keeping the autoclose feature?

If I press the " key 3x I get """""";
If I press it 3x and delete once, I get """" pressing; and If I press it 3x and delete twice, I get ""

Annoying, right? How can I have the best of both worlds (autoclose | docstrings) ?

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  • Nothing is wrong. When you type three " your cursor is at the middle of the resulting six. Thus, anything you type is within the string and has been auto-closed. Commented Apr 8, 2016 at 18:22
  • @MarcJ I tried the double triple quotes but it's not compiling Commented Apr 8, 2016 at 18:36
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    Type this exact string of characters: """This is working without clicking or otherwise moving the cursor. The result will be a correcly formatted string, because it will have auto-closed the string.Therefore you have both strings and autoclose. Commented Apr 8, 2016 at 18:46
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    While it may be correct in theory, it is often annoying in practice, when, for example, you want to switch a single quote to a triple quote because your string is getting too long. Commented Aug 2, 2017 at 15:43
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    (Yeah you can highlight the string and pressing the quote button will put a quote on both sides) Commented Aug 2, 2017 at 15:47

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Nothing is wrong. When you type three " your cursor is at the middle of the resulting six. Thus, anything you type is within the string and has been auto-closed.

Type this exact string of characters: """This is working without clicking or otherwise moving the cursor. The result will be a correcly formatted string, because it will have auto-closed the string. Therefore you have both strings and autoclose.

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