In some cases, when you need to include really long strings (e.g.
containing several paragraphs of informational text), it is annoying
that you have to terminate each line with \n\, especially if
you would like to reformat the text occasionally with a powerful text
editor like Emacs. For such situations, ``triple-quoted'' strings can
be used, e.g.
hello = """
This string is bounded by triple double quotes (3 times ").
Unescaped newlines in the string are retained, though \
it is still possible\nto use all normal escape sequences.
Whitespace at the beginning of a line is
significant. If you need to include three opening quotes
you have to escape at least one of them, e.g. \""".
This string ends in a newline.
"""
Triple-quoted strings can be surrounded by three single quotes as well, again without semantic difference.