r strings?

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In article <8v95f5$mg1$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  johnvert at my-deja.com wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Simple question: what does it mean when strings begin with the letter
> 'r'?

It means that any '\' characters in the string are not used to escape
the following character i.e. the '\' character and the character
following it are left in the string. '\' can still be used to allow an
odd number of quotes.

Check out: http://www.python.org/doc/2.0b1/ref/strings.html


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