String handling bug in Python

[Colin Brown]

On Wed, Apr24, 2002 at 21:02, Anders J. Munch wrote

> Python raw strings are delineated like this:
>
>   A raw string ends at the first matching quote character which is not
>   preceded by an odd number of consecutive backslashes.
>
Thanks Anders, a definition that I can understand.

> It would be great if I could have written this instead:
>   A raw string ends at the first matching quote character.
>
Indeed, intuitively that is how I expected raw string handling to work.

> Much simpler, every bit as useful and - dare I say it - more pythonic
> than the current semantics.
>
My sentiments exactly.