Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution

From	Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution
Date	2016-05-01 22:21 -0700
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On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 10:08 PM, DFS wrote:
> On 5/2/2016 1:02 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> >> I actually use "D:\\file.html" in my code.
> >
> > Or you can do that. But the whole point of raw strings is not having to
> > escape slashes :)
> 
> 
> Nice.  Where/how else is 'r' used?

Raw strings are primarily used A) for windows paths, and more
universally, B) for regular expressions. 

But in theory they're useful anywhere you have static/literal data that
might include backslashes where you don't actually intend to use any
escape characters.

-- 
Stephen Hansen
  m e @ i x o k a i . i o

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You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-01 23:39 -0400
  Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-01 21:31 -0700
    Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 00:51 -0400
      Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-01 22:02 -0700
        Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 01:08 -0400
          Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-01 22:21 -0700
            Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-02 15:51 +1000
        Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 01:23 -0400
          Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-01 22:37 -0700
            Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 02:13 -0400
  Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-05-02 02:46 -0400
  Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-05-02 10:26 +0100
    Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-05-02 13:12 +0300
      Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-02 22:05 +1000
    Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 11:15 -0400
      Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 11:24 -0400
      Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Manolo Martínez <manolo@austrohungaro.com> - 2016-05-02 17:32 +0200
  Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution jfong@ms4.hinet.net - 2016-05-02 17:45 -0700
    Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 21:12 -0400
      Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution jfong@ms4.hinet.net - 2016-05-02 20:27 -0700
        Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-02 20:49 -0700
          Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution jfong@ms4.hinet.net - 2016-05-02 20:57 -0700
            Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-03 09:09 -0700
        Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-02 23:56 -0400
          Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 11:20 +1000
        Re: You gotta love a 2-line python solution Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-03 08:14 -0400

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