Rawest raw string literals

Mikhail V mikhailwas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 12:16:49 EDT 2017


On 20 April 2017 at 17:59, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-20, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Quite often I need raw string literals for concatenating console commands.
>> I want to input them exactly as they are in python sources.
>>
>> There is r"" string, but it is obviously not enough because e.g. this:
>> s = r"ffmpeg -i  "\\server-01\D\SER_Bigl.mpg" "
>
>    s = r'ffmpeg -i  "\\server-01\D\SER_Bigl.mpg" '
>
> Does that do what you want?
>

Yes but it still needs to watch out if there is no ' inside or vice versa
with " characters if use r"". I would like a universal solution.



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