[ python-Bugs-1530012 ] Literal strings use BS as octal escape character

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Bugs item #1530012, was opened at 2006-07-27 15:08
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: brucepeterson (brucepeterson)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Literal strings use BS as octal escape character

Initial Comment:
Also in 2.4


  Using a literal to hard code a path.  My directory 
happened to start with a number and I couldn't open 
the file due to the bad directory name.  Found that 
the tripple quote was operating as documented.

  I would have at least expected the tripple double 
quotes to not have an escape character.  (Is this a 
pep?)  (From my reading of the Introduction, the 
triple double quotes should act like a raw string 
except that you can have a single double quote 
included in the string.)

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code snippet:
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dir1 = """C:\1stDirecotry"""
dir2 = '''C:\2ndDirecotry'''
dir3 = '''C:\9thDirecotry'''
print dir1, dir2, dir3

C:☺stDirecotry C:☻ndDirecotry C:\9thDirecotry

dir1's format was not expected, dir2's format might be 
expected.

>>> '''\1'''
'\x01'
>>> '''\9'''
'\\9'

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