String handling bug in Python

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at comcast.net] 
> 
> [Stephen Ferg]
> > ...
> > I would like to see Python support TRULY raw string 
> literals -- string 
> > literals that are not escaped in any way.  Perhaps they 
> could be added 
> > with a prefix of z (for zero escaping?), so that
> >
> >      z"\" == "\\"
> >      z"\'" == "\\\'"
> 
> The first one can't be spelled at all with a raw string 
> today.  The second one can be, and indeed the same way you 
> spelled it, as r"\'".  What do you do in your scheme if you 
> want a z-string to contain a single double-quote? 

I always thought that could be spelled r'"' or r'''"''', but I guess
there would still be a problem if you wanted all of ", ', ''', and """
in a string. 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?

Confused'ly y'rs
-- bjorn