> That doesn't answer my question, since I asked for a unicode RAW
> string literal. Is this not possible? (I was able to get what I want
> using ur"\u005Cuniverse", although this is not totally ideal.)
It's a design flaw in Unicode raw string literals that they still
interpret \u escape
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> How can I specify a unicode raw string literal that
>> contains a
>> single backslash followed by the word "universe"?
>
> The usual way.
>
word = u'\\universe' len(word) 9 word[0] u'\\' word[1] u'u'
print word \universe word u'\\univer
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:58:48 +, OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
> I'm trying to write a unicode raw string literal, and I seem to be
> running up against a conflict between the \u unicode character
> escape and the need to have a literal \u (i.e., backslash followed by a
> lowercase letter U) in
I'm trying to write a unicode raw string literal, and I seem to be
running up against a conflict between the \u unicode character
escape and the need to have a literal \u (i.e., backslash followed by a
lowercase letter U) in the string.
If I do ur"\universe" I get a UnicodeD
