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Subject: Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of (c)
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> In a raw string, the backslash is buggy (IMNSHO) when it's the last
> character.

It's an inevitable consequence of using the backslash to escape the
quote character. If instead, a raw string doubled the quote character
(like in REXX), it'd need no other escape:

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

Too late to change now.

ChrisA