[issue1271] Raw string parsing fails with backslash as last character

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl added the comment:

There's more to allowing \ at the end of a raw string: if you do that,
the raw string will end at the first quote character which is the same
as the opening one, so you can't put such a quote character into a raw
string anymore. At the moment, you can, by escaping it with a backslash,
though the backslash is left in the string.

There are basically two main uses for raw strings: Windows path names
and regular expressions. The current situation is optimal for the
latter: you can put both quote characters in a raw string, and the
backslash needed to quote the "string quote" being retained is not a
problem.

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