Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <rosuav@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.086
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.83; '*S*': 0.01; 'string.': 0.05; 'string': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'repr': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'handling': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'dec': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'easier': 0.31; 'regular': 0.32; 'raw': 0.33; "can't": 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'easily': 0.37; 'pm,': 0.38; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'around.': 0.60; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.65; 'smith': 0.68; '8bit%:43': 0.74; 'regular,': 0.84; 'to:none': 0.92; '2013': 0.98
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DUVKbN+YqBK+ENKwV5cAqpo44pLcO3M4YbNdUDDoh4c=; b=JK42WtZtBt0M6NWWSDKA9oc54I7McAAoWUqVZBHY+jWt9RV/GimydJj4n/BKhhu+HN ICKSnqcYkLwgJO5K3gz4SfCTsC1PxK+WcF+UaItAO5pa6t+FmtAiZ7AQ3KGaWgrT4d5m bnzfnYJEyTOKt1OnGMrw8Lr3XyOhdoIYuy6KT07EyU5V3J0uarfWOt1FbeN+d++zpF9F s+5LRWwfuMzjbY++yR/2eI3hbCG/xZMLkYo8Wlto9t9+T0m78kARpugBw7ziKa3zjHaW ZbYcw/f7WhOJJ+DxCfgJ/HikcDHegzedTN64ZoAqFHzbvDuEUfx3aRIItwJgi6bGsWy8 eJVw==
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Received: by 10.68.111.33 with SMTP id if1mr14575602pbb.31.1386497045407; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 02:04:05 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <CAMw+j7JEEbj6Pt-ZGPT9dniyzokOKGvFd6ttTSDF9m5JO=GPfQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <27c0b454-62e9-410f-b05c-7c5fe306f8aa@googlegroups.com> <mailman.3713.1386464744.18130.python-list@python.org> <roy-756493.20224107122013@news.panix.com> <CAMw+j7JEEbj6Pt-ZGPT9dniyzokOKGvFd6ttTSDF9m5JO=GPfQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:04:05 +1100
Subject: Re: Is It Bug?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Cc: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.3721.1386497055.18130.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 16
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1386497055 news.xs4all.nl 2884 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52760
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:61282

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Chris =E2=80=9CKwpolska=E2=80=9D Warrick
<kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> There's nothing you can do with raw strings that you can't do with
>> regular strings, but they're easier to read when you start to use
>> backslashes.
>
> Unfortunately, there is one.  A raw string cannot end with a backslash.

That's the other way around. There's something you can't do with a raw
string that you can do with a regular. But there's nothing you can do
with a raw that you can't do with a regular, as can be easily proven
by looking at the repr handling - nothing will ever have a repr that's
a raw string.

ChrisA