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

> 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.

You're right, it's not very useful. I hadn't considered that.

So it looks like the best thing is just to not treat
backslashes in any special way at all in an r-string.

Mark Hahn <[email protected]>:

> What in the hell was Guido thinking?

I think it's a result of just doing whatever was easiest to
implement. Python scans Raw strings using the same regular
expression as normal strings, and the post-processing
step which interprets \n etc. is omitted.

If you're willing to scan raw strings using a different
RE, the problem is easily avoided.

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