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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