This URL has a good section on raw strings. http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotchas.html
r'\' is wrong because raw strings were originally added to make regular expressions easier to write. And you can't have a regexp that ends with \. Also, you can use the \ to escape your original quote character. >>> r'I can\'t end strings with a \'' "I can\\'t end strings with a \\'" hth jw On 10/26/05, Joshua Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> r'\' > File "<stdin>", line 1 > r'\' > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > >>> r'\\' > '\\\\' > > Does that seem wrong to anybody else? Shouldn't the first one be > syntactically correct? > > -jag > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
