You gotta love a 2-line python solution

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Monday 02 May 2016 15:21, Stephen Hansen wrote:

> On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 10:08 PM, DFS wrote:
>> On 5/2/2016 1:02 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>> >> I actually use "D:\\file.html" in my code.
>> >
>> > Or you can do that. But the whole point of raw strings is not having to
>> > escape slashes :)
>> 
>> 
>> Nice.  Where/how else is 'r' used?
> 
> Raw strings are primarily used A) for windows paths, and more
> universally, B) for regular expressions.

Raw strings are designed for regular expressions. They can be used for 
Windows paths, except for one minor gotcha: you can't end a raw string with 
an odd number of backspaces. So this doesn't work:

directory = r'D:\some\path\dir\'

So it's more of a half-cooked string than a raw string.


-- 
Steve