[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.
But at the parsing stage, it *is* somewhat special, even if it is not the last charater. E.g, a = r'check \' this' print a The second quote is not regarded as ending the string literal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
