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On 09/01/2013 07:40 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> Another altrnative is to use "raw" strings, in which backslashes are not
> interpreted:
>      a = r'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav'
>      a.split(r'\')

Not quite.

--> r'\'
   File "<stdin>", line 1
     r'\'
        ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

In a raw string, the backslash is buggy (IMNSHO) when it's the last character.  Given the above error, you might think 
that to get a single-quote in a string delimited by single-quotes that you would use r'\'', but no:

--> r'\''
"\\'"

you get a backslash and a single-quote.  And if you try to escape the backslash to get only one?

--> r'\\'
'\\\\'

You get two.  Grrrr.

--
~Ethan~

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