On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 10:08 PM, DFS wrote: > On 5/2/2016 1:02 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: > >> I actually use "D:\\file.html" in my code. > > > > Or you can do that. But the whole point of raw strings is not having to > > escape slashes :) > > > Nice. Where/how else is 'r' used?
Raw strings are primarily used A) for windows paths, and more universally, B) for regular expressions. But in theory they're useful anywhere you have static/literal data that might include backslashes where you don't actually intend to use any escape characters. -- Stephen Hansen m e @ i x o k a i . i o -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
