[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess my point is that it is quite surprising that r'\' is not a > legal way to represent a backslash. I look for consistency in the > tools that I work with and this except-for-the-last-character exception > is annoying
you seem to be missing that "exception" you think you're seeing is the consequence of a consistency: *all* literal strings are parsed in the same way, no matter what's prefix qualifier they're using. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
