Python's driving me mad. Invalid token?

[Greg Ewing]

Paul.Casteels at ua.ac.be wrote:

> 
> \" 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.


Even in a raw string, backslashes still escape quote
characters. A consequence of this is that a raw string
can't end in an odd number of backslashes. Which is
annoying, but we seem to be stuck with it.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg