Python's driving me mad. Invalid token?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <3dafb2a6 at news.uia.ac.be>, Paul.Casteels at ua.ac.be wrote:
>It's the line 
>  destFile = open((dirname+"""\"""+name),'w')
>
>\" seems to be treate as one character, r'\' also does not work. 
>You will have to use r'\\'. This is strange, because r'\a' does work as
>expected.

This isn't reall that strange (at least, it's well documented). If
r'\' was allowed, there'd be no way of including a single quote in a
raw, single-quoted string. Right?

>	Paul Casteels

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