On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking about silliness of definitions, I was knocked out in class by this > today: > >>>> r"\"" > '\\"' > > Seeing the docs > https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals > it talks of this explicitly > > But I still find it strange -- I would have expected this kind of error > behavior: > >>>> "A string" "another incomplete > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal >>>>
I'm sorry, I'm not understanding your confusion here. A raw string literal allows escaped quote characters - is that the problem? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
