<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > thanks for the reply. I figured that this was a technical problem > associated with the parser. > > This one is going on my Python gotchas list. It is really silly from > an end user perspective to have \ not special in raw strings _except_ > if it is the last character.
The alternative would have been to offer no way at all for a rawstring to include its quoting-character. Since rawstrings were designed to support regular expressions (which never need to end with a backslash), that was considered a higher cost -- there is no real advantage to supporting backslash-using Dos/Windows path literals, even though many Windowsers use rawstrings for those. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
