Is this a bug?

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Hopkins wrote:
> This just came up in one of the mailing lists I track.  Python apparently
> requires that last '\' to be escaped, even though you're using "Raw".
>
> So myPath = r'c:\Windows\\' *should* work, though I haven't tried it.

it doesn't give you a syntax error, but it doesn't really do
what you expected:

>>> myPath = r'c:\Windows\\'
>>> print myPath
c:\Windows\\

for the full story on backslashes, see FAQ entry 6.29:

    http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#6.29

    ...

    If you're trying to build Windows pathnames, note that all
    Windows system calls accept forward slashes too:

        f = open("/mydir/file.txt") # works fine!

    If you're trying to build a pathname for a DOS command,
    try e.g. one of

        dir = r"\this\is\my\dos\dir" "\\"
        dir = r"\this\is\my\dos\dir\ "[:-1]
        dir = \\this\\is\\my\\dos\\dir\\

    ...

Cheers /F