[Tutor] absolute locations

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

> This means that if you want Python to interpret \
> literally you have
> to use some scheme - hence the doubling \\.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> G. Rodrigues

This can be annoying if you do it alot, so to skip all
of the escape codes and have \ interpreted as \, you
can prefix the string with the letter r. Example:

>>> print 'C:\\new' #annoying, but correct
C:\new
>>> print 'C:\new' #wrong
C:
ew
>>> print r'C:\new' #right and not annoying

Daniel Ehrenberg

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