On 2007-07-04, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> String quotes can be escaped with a backslash, but the >> backslash remains in the string; for example, r"\"" is a >> valid string literal consisting of two characters: a >> backslash and a double quote; > > a) That is weird! Why would you ever want to do that - ie > insert \" into your string as a special case? If I wanted a " > in a raw string then I'd use a r'' string or a triple quoted > string. > > If we removed a) then we could remove b) also and r"" strings > would work as everyone expects. > > Does anyone know the justification for a)? Maybe we should > remove it in py3k?
If the escaped quotes didn't function in raw strings, I'd be unable to construct (with a single notation) a regex that included both kinds of quotes at once. re.compile(r"'\"") -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
