On Monday 02 May 2016 15:21, Stephen Hansen wrote: > 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.
Raw strings are designed for regular expressions. They can be used for Windows paths, except for one minor gotcha: you can't end a raw string with an odd number of backspaces. So this doesn't work: directory = r'D:\some\path\dir\' So it's more of a half-cooked string than a raw string. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
