[issue40250] unable to comment out r'\u' string with triple quote marks

Change by Irit Katriel : -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue40250] unable to comment out r'\u' string with triple quote marks

Vedran Čačić added the comment: This "bug" is reported at least once a year, by different people. Maybe we should put something in the documentation, to the effect that a) as Eric said, triple-quoted strings are not (meant to be used as) comments b) if you nonetheless really want to use them

[issue40250] unable to comment out r'\u' string with triple quote marks

Eric V. Smith added the comment: This basically comes down to """\u""" not being a valid string. I'm not sure why you'd expect this to work: triple quoted strings are not designed as a general purpose "comment out" facility, and as you've discovered, they don't work that way. What's inside

[issue40250] unable to comment out r'\u' string with triple quote marks

Change by Elmar Bucher : -- type: -> compile error ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue40250] unable to comment out r'\u' string with triple quote marks

New submission from Elmar Bucher : When I try to comment out this little code by triple quotation, I run into SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 29-30: truncated \u escape ls_tex = [] ls_tex.append(r'\usepackage{mathtools}') print(ls_tex)