LaTeX output "pretty prints" triple single quotes in code context

[shimizukawa]

"Explaining that Python uses triple single quotes (''') is currently difficult with Sphinx."

Docutils LaTeX writer apparently translates that snippet to:

\texttt{'{}'{}'}

However, Sphinx translate it to:

\texttt{'''}

Which means that LaTeX now interprets two of those quotes as a single "pretty" double quote in final output. Currently, the less than ideal approach is to manually intersperse with spaces:

"Explaining that Python uses triple single quotes ('\ '\ ') is currently difficult with Sphinx."

Reference this user group discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sphinx-dev/-t_yoHLBjUU/discussion

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/961
• Originally reported by: Anonymous
• Originally created at: 2012-07-05T18:35:34.704

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2013-03-30 11:50:00+00:00

Closes #961: Fix LaTeX output for triple quotes in code snippets.

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