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

[phil hunt]

On 13 Mar 2002 01:13:13 GMT, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>    q'|'c:\foo\bar\|
>>
>>"""c:\foo\bar\""" and r"c:\foo\bar\" work just as well.
>>
>You didn't mean that ;-)
>
> >>> """c:\foo\bar\"""
> ...
> ... (it's waiting for three unescaped quotes in a row)
> ... """
> 'c:\x0coo\x08ar"""\n\n(it\'s waiting for three unescaped quotes in a row)\n'
> >>>
> >>> r"c:\foo\bar\"
>   File "<string>", line 1
>     r"c:\foo\bar\"
>                  ^
> SyntaxError: invalid token
> >>>
>
>>The best solution, of course, is to not use Windows.
>>
>You probably did mean that ;-)

Absolutely. It's the solution I use, and it's never failed me yet.

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