[New-bugs-announce] [issue25978] escape sequence r'\' giving compilation error

[Kiran Kotari]

New submission from Kiran Kotari:

>>> '\test'.lstrip(r'\')
	       
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

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components: 2to3 (2.x to 3.x conversion tool)
messages: 257221
nosy: Kiran Kotari
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: escape sequence r'\' giving compilation error
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.5

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