On May 21, 9:44 pm, "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Escaping the delimiting quote is the *one* time backslashes have a > special meaning in raw string literals. If that were true, then wouldn't r'\b' be treated as two characters? > This calls re.sub with a pattern string object that contains two > characters, a backslash followed by an 'n'. This combination *does* > have a special meaning to the sub function, which does it's own > translation of the pattern into a single newline character. So when do I know when a raw string is treated as a raw string, and when it's not? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
