On Jul 3, 7:15 am, alf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > question without words: > > >>> r"\" > File "<stdin>", line 1 > r"\" > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > >>> r"\ " > '\\ '
One slash escapes the following character, so the proper way of writing it is either r"\\" or r"\"" See http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html for more information. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
