Benji York wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: >> The following inconsistency still bothers me, but I suppose it's an edge >> case that doesn't cause problems. >> >> >>> print r"hello world\" >> File "<stdin>", line 1 >> print r"hello world\" >> ^ >> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > >> In the first case, it's treated as a continuation character even though >> it's not at the end of a physical line. So it gives an error. > > No, that is unrelated to line continuation. The \" is an escape > sequence, therefore there is no double-quote to end the string literal.
Are you sure? >>> print r'\"' \" It's just a '\' here. These are raw strings if you didn't notice. Cheers, Ron _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com