Using quotation marks inside quotation marks

When I want to do a print command in Python and I need to use quotation marks, I don't know how to do it without closing the string.

For instance:

print " "a word that needs quotation marks" "

But when I try to do what I did above, I end up closing the string and I can't put the word I need between quotation marks.

How can I do that?

You could do this in one of three ways:

1. Use single and double quotes together:

   print('"A word that needs quotation marks"')
   "A word that needs quotation marks"
   

2. Escape the double quotes within the string:

   print("\"A word that needs quotation marks\"")
   "A word that needs quotation marks" 
   

3. Use triple-quoted strings:

   print(""" "A word that needs quotation marks" """)
   "A word that needs quotation marks" 
   

You need to escape it. (Using Python 3 print function):

>>> print("The boy said \"Hello!\" to the girl")
The boy said "Hello!" to the girl
>>> print('Her name\'s Jenny.')
Her name's Jenny.

See the python page for string literals.

Python accepts both " and ' as quote marks, so you could do this as:

>>> print '"A word that needs quotation marks"'
"A word that needs quotation marks"

Alternatively, just escape the inner "s

>>> print "\"A word that needs quotation marks\""
"A word that needs quotation marks"

Use the literal escape character \

print("Here is, \"a quote\"")

The character basically means ignore the semantic context of my next charcter, and deal with it in its literal sense.