MRAB wrote:
In Python 3.x a backslash doesn't have a special meaning in a raw
string, except that it can prevent a following quote from ending the
string, but the backslash is still included. Why? How useful is that? I
think it would've been simpler if a backslash had _no_ special effect,
not even with a following quote. If you want a quote then either use the
other quote character as the delimiter or use a triple-quoted raw
string.
I think the reason is because rawstring is originally devised for
regular expressions and in regex it is common to want to allow both
single quote and double quote in the same pattern, like:
<(.*?) (.*?)=("|')(.*?)("|')>
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