Is It Bug?

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> There's nothing you can do with raw strings that you can't do with
> regular strings, but they're easier to read when you start to use
> backslashes.

Unfortunately, there is one.  A raw string cannot end with a backslash.

>>> r'a\a'
'a\\a'
>>> r'a\'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    r'a\'
        ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>>> r'\'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    r'\'
       ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

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