Can't match str/unicode

[CM]

On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote:
> 
> > So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal
> > to another string with the content 'match'?
> 
> You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you know is that when
> printed, it *looks like* 'match'.
> 
> Hint:
> 
> s = 'match '
> print 'match', s  # they look the same
> print 'match' == s  # but they aren't the same
> 
> 
> Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have.

Yes, that did it. The repr of that one was, in fact:

u'match /r'

Thanks, that did it. Do you happen to know why that /r was appended to the unicode object in this case?