I think this aspect of raw strings is a bit ugle but it is not a bug...
The last character in a raw string cannot be a '\' because '\' is still used
to escape quotes, just like in regular strings. Unlike regular strings,
however, backslashes used to escape quotes remain in the string.
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Is this a bug in Python, or my misunderstanding of row string
>>> c = r'c:\'
Traceback ( File "<interactive input>", line 1
c = r'c:\'
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
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