"Alan G Isaac" <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Naturally enough. So I think the right answer is:
>
> 1. this is a documentation bug (i.e., the documentation
> fails to specify unexpected behavior for raw strings), or
> 2. this is a bug (i.e., raw strings are not handled correctly
> when used as replacements)
<neo> There is no raw string. </neo>
A raw string is not a distinct type from an ordinary string
in the same way byte strings and Unicode strings are. It
is a merely a notation for constants, like writing integers
in hexadecimal.
>>> (r'\n', u'a', 0x16)
('\\n', u'a', 22)
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