raw Strings from XML attributes

[Terry Reedy]

> As Peter Otten points out, "rawness" is a concept that Python forgets as
> soon as a string is loaded into memory.

More specifically, "raw" is an alternate mode of interpreting/translating
string literals in program code as they are used to give value to a string
object.  Similarly, "text" is an alternative mode (for DOS/Win, not *nix,
don't know about Mac) for converting file bytes to a Python string.  In
other words, 'rawness' is a concept of action rather than a concept of
thingness.

Terry J. Reedy