RFC PEP candidate: q'<delim>'quoted<delim> ?

[Greg Ewing]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
> Would someone explain this:
> 
>  >>> eval("list(r'\x07')")
>  ['\x07']
>  >>> list(r'\x07')
>  ['\\', 'x', '0', '7']

The string literal you're passing to eval is
non-raw, so the \x07 gets interpreted before
eval even sees it. Try this instead:

   >>> eval(r"list(r'\x07')")

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