RE: Re[2]: backslashes and r-strings r"abc"

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:

>> Mark Hahn <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> Does anyone see any reason to preserve Python's restriction on not 
>>> having a backslash as the last character of a r-string?
>> 
>> The reason it's there is because, even inside r-strings, backslashes 
>> still escape quote characters. To remove it, you'd have to either 
>> disallow quotes embedded in r-strings, or come up with some 
>other way 
>> of flagging them without compromising the rawness quality of 
>> r-strings.
>> 
>Backslashes are not removed in raw strings. So a 
>backslash-quote gives you that, a backslash-quote. Hardly 
>useful for including double quotes in a single quoted string 
>or vice versa.

Well, it IS useful if the quote character you need happens to follow a
backslash. :-)

No wonder I didn't understand what "Python in a nutshell" was explaining.
It makes no sense whatsoever.  What in the hell was Guido thinking?

I can understand Greg's confusion.  His brain turned the mess into something
that made sense, even if it was wrong.