Bugs item #1530012, was opened at 2006-07-27 15:08 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nnorwitz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1530012&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: brucepeterson (brucepeterson) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Literal strings use BS as octal escape character Initial Comment: Also in 2.4 Using a literal to hard code a path. My directory happened to start with a number and I couldn't open the file due to the bad directory name. Found that the tripple quote was operating as documented. I would have at least expected the tripple double quotes to not have an escape character. (Is this a pep?) (From my reading of the Introduction, the triple double quotes should act like a raw string except that you can have a single double quote included in the string.) ------------- code snippet: ------------- dir1 = """C:\1stDirecotry""" dir2 = '''C:\2ndDirecotry''' dir3 = '''C:\9thDirecotry''' print dir1, dir2, dir3 C:☺stDirecotry C:☻ndDirecotry C:\9thDirecotry dir1's format was not expected, dir2's format might be expected. >>> '''\1''' '\x01' >>> '''\9''' '\\9' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) Date: 2006-07-28 20:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=33168 Triple quotes are just like single or double quotes wrt escaping. You need to prefix the string with an r: r"C:\1stDirecotry" to get what you want. This is probably documented in many places. I'm not sure where you looked or where you expected it to be documented. Can you suggest improvements? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1530012&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
