pdb docs: workaround for double semicolon in strings (GH-17011)

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

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2888b1107f)

Co-authored-by: Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha@bubblenet.be>
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@ -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 ``";"";"``.
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