>>> r"a\" SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal (<pyshell#45>, line 1)It seems the parser is interpreting the backslash as an escape character in a raw string if the backslash is the last character. Is this expected?
Yep...as documented[1], "even a raw string cannot end in an odd number of backslashes".
-tkc [1] http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
