Matthew Warren wrote: > I would expect this to work, > > rawstring=r'some things\new things\some other things\' > > But it fails as the last backslash escapes the single quote.
raw string literals are parsed in exactly the same way as ordinary string literals; it's just the mapping from the string literal to the contents of the string object that differs. see the documentation for details. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
