On Jul 3, 8:25 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:16:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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"\"" > > >Seehttp://docs.python.org/ref/strings.htmlfor more information. > > I wonder if the OP was asking how to spell the one-length string \? > In that case, the answer is that it can't be done using raw strings, > but "\\" does it. Backslash escapes aren't interpreted in raw strings, > but you still can't end a raw string with a backslash. > > Jean-Paul
Very true...sometimes I need to read these weird posts 2 or 3 times. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
