Raw String Question
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Thu Mar 12 14:32:27 EDT 2009
> >>> r"a\"
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal (<pyshell#45>, line 1)
>
> It seems the parser is interpreting the backslash as an escape
> character in a raw string if the backslash is the last character.
> Is this expected?
Yep...as documented[1], "even a raw string cannot end in an odd
number of backslashes".
-tkc
[1]
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html
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