Simple question - end a raw string with a single backslash ?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 10:04:55 EDT 2020


On 2020-10-19, Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker at sil.org> wrote:

> For a neatish way to get a string to end with a single backslash, how about
>    mystr = r"abc\ "[:-1]
> (Note the space at the end of the rough-quoted string.)

That's the first thing I thought of, though I would probably use a
non-space character to avoid convusion when reading:

   mystr = r'abc\_'[:-1]

--
Grant



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