String handling bug in Python

David Bolen db3l at fitlinxx.com
Fri Apr 26 22:39:07 EDT 2002


Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> writes:

> It seems if you imposed the limitation that the z-string not contain
> the quote character used to delimit the string then you could simply
> use concatenation to get around that limitation:
> 
> z"'" z'"' z'\'

Of course, the same string concatenation can also get around the final
backslash raw string problem:

    r'some\file\path' '\\'

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