Slightly OT, but here is a crazy little program that shows the power of using raw strings:
s=r'print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s)' print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s) When run, this program will print an exact copy of itself. Blackbird -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list