From: Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha@bubblenet.be>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 23:20:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: pdb docs: workaround for double semicolon in strings (#17011)
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pdb docs: workaround for double semicolon in strings (#17011)

see https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/172

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
index ca59576336bf..383c3adcf289 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ Multiple commands may be entered on a single line, separated by ``;;``.  (A
 single ``;`` is not used as it is the separator for multiple commands in a line
 that is passed to the Python parser.)  No intelligence is applied to separating
 the commands; the input is split at the first ``;;`` pair, even if it is in the
-middle of a quoted string.
+middle of a quoted string. A workaround for strings with double semicolons
+is to use implicit string concatenation ``';'';'`` or ``";"";"``.
 
 .. index::
    pair: .pdbrc; file