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Re: Is It Bug?

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Date 2013-12-08 11:01 +0100
Subject Re: Is It Bug?
From Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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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.

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

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Is It Bug? Mahan Marwat <mahanmarwat@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 16:59 -0800
  Re: Is It Bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 12:05 +1100
    Re: Is It Bug? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-07 20:22 -0500
      Re: Is It Bug? Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 11:01 +0100
      Re: Is It Bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 21:04 +1100
      Re: Is It Bug? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 21:26 +1100
  Re: Is It Bug? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-08 01:06 +0000
  Re: Is It Bug? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-12-08 01:12 +0000
  Re: Is It Bug? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-12-07 22:53 -0800
  Re: Is It Bug? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-12-08 11:43 +0100

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