String handling bug in Python

[Tim Peters]

> ...
> What do you do in your scheme if you want a z-string to contain a
> single double-quote?
>

[Bjorn Pettersen]
> I always thought that could be spelled r'"' or r'''"''',

Sure, but note the question is asking about the OP's z-string notation,
which supposedly has no difficulties.  You're talking about the r-string
notation.

> but I guess there would still be a problem if you wanted all of ", ',
> ''', and """ in a string.

There is with r-strings, yes.

> I would think that would occur less frequently than \ at the end of a
> string though (especially with windows path names).  I feel I must be
> missing something?

The good news is that I also feel that you are <wink>.  r-strings were
primarily intended to ease writing regular expressions (which can never end
with an odd number of backslashes), and people using \ in Windows pathnames
are usually missing an obvious alternative (like the forward slash --
Windows API functions couldn't care less which kind of slash you use; and
portable code should avoid any literal slashes via os.path.join()).