Raw string question

[Emile van Sebille]

It can, you just need to escape it if it's the last
character:

a=r"c:\path\\"


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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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"Larry Bates" <lbates at syscon-computers.com> wrote in message
news:3a9bc4f5$1 at news1.dbtech.net...
> Why can't a raw string end with a backslash (\)?
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> example
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> a=r"c:\path\"
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> doesn't work
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> a=r"c:\path"
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> works fine
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> Thanks, Larry
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>
> BTW - I'm using ActiveState PythonWin (if makes any
difference).
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