Raw string fu

[Jaime Wyant]

Doh. that example was supposed to be ->
>>> r'I can\'t end strings with a \.'
"I can\\'t end strings with a \\."

On 10/26/05, Jaime Wyant <programmer.py at gmail.com> wrote:
> This URL has a good section on raw strings.
>
> http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotchas.html
>
> r'\' is wrong because raw strings were originally added to make
> regular expressions easier to write.  And you can't have a regexp that
> ends with \.
>
> Also, you can use the \ to escape your original quote character.
>
> >>> r'I can\'t end strings with a \''
> "I can\\'t end strings with a \\'"
>
> hth
> jw
>
> On 10/26/05, Joshua Ginsberg <listspam at flowtheory.net> wrote:
> > >>> r'\'
> > File "<stdin>", line 1
> > r'\'
> > ^
> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> > >>> r'\\'
> > '\\\\'
> >
> > Does that seem wrong to anybody else? Shouldn't the first one be
> > syntactically correct?
> >
> > -jag
> >
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