Re: Re: backslashes and r-strings r"abc"

> Oh, I understand now.  He is pre-checking to make sure the string will be
> legal later when used in the regex.

No, there's no pre-checking going on. The way backslashes are treated
in r-strings just happens to be what you want for regular expressions,
that's all.

Leonard is pointing out that being able to include a backslash-quote
in an r-string is not useless, because it's exactly what you want for
including a quote in an RE. Similarly, the inability to end with a
backslash is not a disadvantage in an RE.

So it seems I spoke slightly too soon when I said that being able
to include backslash-quote but not quote was useless.

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