[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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"\""
I don't think so... >>> r"\\" '\\\\' >>> r"\"" '\\"' Indicating that all the \ in the above are inserted literally. Maybe you meant >>> "\\" '\\' >>> "\"" '"' -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
