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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: the meaning of =?UTF-8?B?cuKAmS4uLi4uLi7igJg=?=
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:07:40 -0400
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On 7/23/2012 3:59 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie <levinie001@gmail.com> wrote:=

>> the meaning of r=E2=80=99.......=E2=80=98=EF=BC=9F
>
> It's a raw string.
>
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html#strings

Strictly speaking, it is a raw string literal, which should be parsed as =

raw (string literal) and NOT as (raw string) literal. I know that the=20
docs sometimes leave off 'literal', but that sometimes confuses people=20
that there is such a thing as a raw string instance.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy