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

Greg Ewing wrote:

> > 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.

That's what I'm proposing in the Wiki, except I am going to support
continuation at the end of the line.

> 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.

What's an RE? (Just kidding). I have custom C code for each of the string
types.  I'm just an old-fashioned hacker. :-)